Palaeocentron Giłka et al. 2021 (non biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Full reference: W. Giłka, M. Zakrzewska, E. D. Lukashevich and P. S. Cranston. 2021. Taxonomic names, in Wanted, tracked down and identified: Mesozoic non-biting midges of the subfamily Chironominae (Chironomidae, Diptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194:874-892

Parent taxon: Pseudochironomini according to W. Giłka et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Eomicromimus, Eoriethia, Megacentron, Mesoacentron, Microtendipes, Riethia

Subtaxa: Palaeocentron krzeminskii

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Type: Palaeocentron krzeminskii

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (ISEA Krakow collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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