Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Parent taxon: Ceratopogonidae according to R. Szadziewski et al. 2021
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Pielowska et al. 2018, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Statz 1944, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1990, Szadziewski 1996 and Szadziewski and Sontag 2019
Sister taxa: Adelohelea, Alautunmyia, Archiculicoides, Atriculicoidinae, Ceratopogon crassipalpis, Ceratopogon madagascariensis, Ceratopogon tenuipes, Ceratopogon viscatus, Ceratopogoninae, Gerontodacus, Heleageron, Lebanoculicoidinae, Leptoconopinae, Protoculicoides, Simulia pasithea, Simulium terribilis, Sinopogonitinae, Bezziinae
Subtaxa: Dasyheleini Forcipomyiini
Type: Forcipomyia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (6 collections), Ethiopia (1), Mexico (9), New Zealand (1), United States (39: California)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of China (1), Denmark (1), Germany (2), India (3), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 78 collections including 227 occurrences