Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative spelling: Culicoidinae
Full reference: J. J. Kieffer. 1911. Nouvelles descriptions de chironomides obtenus d’éclosion. Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Metz 27:1-60
Parent taxon: Ceratopogoninae according to E. Peñalver et al. 2021
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Choufani et al. 2014, Kieffer 1911, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Statz 1944, Szadziewski 1988 and Szadziewski 1996
Sister taxa: Ceratopogon escheri, Ceratopogonini, Culicoides carri, Culicoides fossilis, Culicoides laurae, Culicoides mioceneus, Heteromyiini, Johannsenomyia hotchkissae, Johannsenomyiini, Neoculicoides, Neoculicoides jeanneae, Palpomyiini, Sphaeromiini
Subtaxa: Culicoides Washingtonhelea
Type: Culicoides
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections), Mexico (1), United States (5: California)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Denmark (1), Germany (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (4), Ukraine (3)
• Cretaceous of Canada (11: Alberta, Manitoba), France (2), Myanmar (3), the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: New Jersey)
Total: 44 collections including 116 occurrences