Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Alternative combination: Forcipomyia rasnitsyni

Full reference: R. Szadziewski, E. Sontag, and M. V. Pankowski. 2021. A new biting midge of the genus Forcipomyia Meigen, 1818 from Miocene Ethiopian amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Palaeoentomology 4:441-444

Belongs to Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) according to A. Borkent et al. 2022

See also Szadziewski et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) eobreviflagellata, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) eocostata, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) fusiparamera, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) gedanicola, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) grimaldii, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) krzeminskii, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) kulickae, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) lyneborgi, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) pseudomicrohelea, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) subgedanicola, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) turbinata, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) uncula, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) unculiformis

Type specimen: MAI 6697, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Ethiopian amber (MAIG collection), which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Ethiopia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Ethiopian amber (MAIG collection)

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