Family Ceratopogonidae Newman 1834 (biting midge)
Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Synonym: Heleidae
Full reference: E. Newman. 1834. Attempted division of British insect into natural orders. The Entomological Magazine 2:379-431
Parent taxon: Chironomoidea according to D. K. Yeates et al. 2007
See also Carpenter 1992, Clapham 2023 and Grogan and Szadziewski 1988
Sister taxon: Anisinodus
Subtaxa: Adelohelea Alautunmyia Archiculicoides Atriculicoidinae Bezziinae Ceratopogon crassipalpis Ceratopogon madagascariensis Ceratopogon tenuipes Ceratopogon viscatus Ceratopogoninae Forcipomyiinae Gerontodacus Heleageron Lebanoculicoidinae Leptoconopinae Protoculicoides Simulia pasithea Simulium terribilis Sinopogonitinae
Type: Ceratopogon
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