Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: A. Borkent. 1995. Biting Midges in the Cretaceous Amber of North America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) 1-237
Parent taxon: Ceratopogonini according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 1995, Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997 and Szadziewski 1996
Sister taxa: Alluaudomyia, Atyphohelea, Austrohelea, Baeodasymyia, Baeohelea, Brachycretacea, Brachypogon, Camptopterohelea, Ceratoculicoides, Ceratopalpomyia, Ceratopogon, Eohelea, Fanthamia, Fossihelea, Gedanohelea, Mantohelea, Meunierohelea, Monogedania, Monohelea, Nannohelea, Nelohelea, Palaeobrachypogon, Schizohelea, Serromyia, Stilobezzia, Wirthohelea
Subtaxa: Peronehelea chrimikalydia Peronehelea frigida Peronehelea sibirica
Type: Peronehelea chrimikalydia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (8: Alberta, Manitoba collections), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 9 collections including 11 occurrences
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