Adelohelea Borkent 1995 (biting midge)

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

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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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