Protoculicoides revelatus, Borkent, 2019

Borkent, Art, 2019, The phylogenetic relationships of Cretaceous biting midges, with a key to all known genera (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), American Museum Novitates 2019 (3921) : -

Protoculicoides revelatus , n. sp.

Figure 1A–E

DIAGNOSIS (male unknown): The only species of Cretaceous Ceratopogonidae with an elongate pedicel (fig. 1B, C) and flagellomeres 9–13 elongate (fig. 1C).

DESCRIPTION (male unknown): Female adult. Head (fig. 1A–C): Ommatidia narrowly abutting dorsomedially, with dorsomedial seta (fig. 1B). Antenna with 13 separate flagellomeres, flagellomeres 9–13 more elongate than 1–8 (fig. 1C), AR = 1.1, sensilla coeloconica not visible on flagellomere 1. Mouthparts elongate, length of mouthparts/length of tarsomere 5 of foreleg = 2.8, with details not visible (fig. 1B). Palpus with five segments, segment 3 elongate, sensilla not visible, segments 3/4 = 2.2. Thorax (fig. 1A–C): Scutal setae elongate, in welldefined rows (fig. 1C). Scutal suture well developed. Anapleural suture elongate (fig. 1A). Wing