Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: J. J. Kieffer. 1911. Description de nouveaux Chironomides de L'Indian Museum de Calcutta. Records of the Indian Museum 6:113-177
Parent taxon: Ceratopogonini according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Kieffer 1911, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Statz 1944, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1990 and Szadziewski 2019
Sister taxa: Alluaudomyia, Atyphohelea, Austrohelea, Baeodasymyia, Baeohelea, Brachycretacea, Brachypogon, Camptopterohelea, Ceratoculicoides, Ceratopalpomyia, Ceratopogon, Eohelea, Fanthamia, Fossihelea, Gedanohelea, Mantohelea, Meunierohelea, Monogedania, Monohelea, Nannohelea, Nelohelea, Palaeobrachypogon, Peronehelea, Schizohelea, Serromyia, Wirthohelea
Subtaxa: Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) Stilobezzia kurthi Stilobezzia pikei Stilobezzia roggeroi
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections)
• Oligocene of Germany (2)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), Germany (2), India (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (2)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), France (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
Total: 22 collections including 38 occurrences
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