†Smittia veta Boesel 1937 (non biting midge)
Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 271707
Alternative combination: Spaniotoma (Smittia) veta
Full reference: M. W. Boesel. 1937. Order Diptera, Family Chironomidae, in Insects and arachnids from Canadian amber. University of Toronto Studies in Geology 40:44-55
Belongs to Smittia according to N. I. Zelentsov et al. 2012
Sister taxon: Smittia sukachevae
Type specimen: ROM 45, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (ROM collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.
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Average measurements (in mm): body length 1.30