Atriculicoides
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Ceratopogonidae
- Genus: Atriculicoides
Visual Description
Based on fossil specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, Atriculicoides exhibits the characteristic body form of a small biting midge.[1] The specimens show a compact, rounded thorax and a distinct, segmented abdomen. The wings are typically broad and held over the dorsal surface of the body in the fossilized state.[1]
Evolutionary Significance
Atriculicoides is an extinct genus established by Remm in 1976.[2] It is classified within the subfamily Forcipomyiinae and the tribe Atriculicoidini.[3] This genus was prevalent in Upper Cretaceous fossil resins, particularly those from the Khatanga Depression. It is widely considered to be the most probable ancestral group for the extant tribes Forcipomyiini and Dasyheleini.[3]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Ceratopogonidae / Atriculicoides constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Atriculicoides Remm, 1976. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/4573061. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- 1 2 Ryszard Szadziewski; Elżbieta Sontag. A new species of Forcipomyia from Paleocene Sakhalin amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Polish Journal of Entomology. 2013. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10200-012-0023-x.