Corneliola avia, 2013

Zakrzewska, Marta, Krzemiński, Wiesław & Giłka, Wojciech, 2016, Towards the diversity of non-biting midges of the tribe Tanytarsini from Eocene Baltic amber (Diptera: Chironomidae), Palaeontologia Electronica (Ottawa, Ont.) 12 (1), pp. 1-21 : 4-5

Corneliola avia

Giłka and Zakrzewska, 2013

Figure 1

2013 Corneliola avia Giłka and Zakrzewska in Giłka et al.: 575, figures 3-5 (male, female).

2014 Corneliola avia Giłka and Zakrzewska in Zakrzewska and Giłka: 342 (male, in key).

2015a Corneliola avia Giłka and Zakrzewska in Zakrzewska and Giłka: 348 (remarks), figure 2.

Material examined. Five adult males in 5 pieces of amber ( Eocene , ~40-45 Ma , Gulf of Gdańsk, Figure 1) : 1 male ( CCHH 93-8 , 15 x 7.5 x 6.5 mm); 1

male ( CCHH 213-6, 12.5 x 11.5 x 3 mm); 1 male

( CCHH 242-7, 14 x 9 x 4 mm), animal syninclusions: Acari (2 ind.); 1 male ( CCHH 257-4 , 15 x

12.5 x 7.5 mm), animal syninclusion: Acari (1 ind.);

1 male ( CCHH 1754-9 , 9.5 x 8 x 4 mm) .

Remarks. This is one of the most frequent Tanytarsini species in Baltic amber collected both from the Gulf of Gdańsk and the Rovno region ( Giłka et al., 2013; Zakrzewska and Giłka, 2015a), and the only fossil species of this tribe known from the adult female.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Tanytarsini - inclusions in Baltic amber from the Hoffeins collection (for details see Table 1 and Material examined).