Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: A. Borkent. 1995. Biting Midges in the Cretaceous Amber of North America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) 1-237

Belongs to Palaeobrachypogon according to A. Borkent 2013

Sister taxa: Palaeobrachypogon aquilonius, Palaeobrachypogon grandiforceps, Palaeobrachypogon macronyx, Palaeobrachypogon remmi

Type specimen: CAS 1198, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (CNC June 1974 collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Foremost Formation of Canada.

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