†Metahelea serafini Szadziewski 1998 (biting midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1998. A new species of the predaceous midge genus Metahelea from Baltic amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 67:245-253
Belongs to Metahelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Szadziewski 1998 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MIBUG 111, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (University of Gdansk MAI collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (University of Gdansk MAI collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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