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Issue: Vol. 9 No. 2: 29 Apr. 2026
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2026-04-29
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.9.2.4
Page range: 121-124
Abstract views: 86
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First record of the genus Minyohelea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Spain with description of a new species

Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, University of Gdańsk, ul. Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland
Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Nematocera Cretaceous amber inclusion fossil synonymy

Abstract

Fossil Ceratopogonidae are common in Spanish amber. To date eight species have been described (Peñalver et al., 2025); two of them have been described from San Just amber: Atriculicoides hispanicus (Szadziewski & Arillo, 2016) and Atriculicoides sanjusti (Szadziewski & Arillo, 2016), both in the same piece as the new species. Gerontodacus skalskii (Szadziewski & Arillo, 1998), originally described from Álava amber is also recorded in San Just amber (Arillo et al., 2008).

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