Psectrotanypus Kieffer 1909 (non biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Full reference: J. J. Kieffer. 1909. Diagnoses de nouveaux chironomides d'Allemagne. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Metz 26:37-56

Parent taxon: Macropelopiini according to M. N. Krosch et al. 2022

See also Ashe et al. 2024 and Baranov and Haug 2021

Sister taxa: Apsectrotanypus, Brundiniella, Macropelopia

Subtaxa: none

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Kishenehn (Greenwalt collection) (Eocene of Montana)

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