Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: A. Borkent. 1995. Biting Midges in the Cretaceous Amber of North America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) 1-237
Parent taxon: Ceratopogonidae according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 1997, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019 and Borkent and Wirth 1997
Sister taxa: Alautunmyia, Archiculicoides, Atriculicoidinae, Ceratopogon crassipalpis, Ceratopogon madagascariensis, Ceratopogon tenuipes, Ceratopogon viscatus, Ceratopogoninae, Forcipomyiinae, Gerontodacus, Heleageron, Lebanoculicoidinae, Leptoconopinae, Protoculicoides, Simulia pasithea, Simulium terribilis, Sinopogonitinae, Bezziinae
Subtaxa: Adelohelea burmitica Adelohelea glabra Adelohelea magyarica
Type: Adelohelea glabra
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta, Manitoba collections), Hungary (1), Myanmar (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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