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Brachypogon Kieffer 1899 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Parent taxon: Ceratopogonini according to R. Szadziewski et al. 2026

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Kieffer 1906, Solórzano Kraemer 2007, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011 and Szadziewski 1988

Sister taxa: Alluaudomyia, Atyphohelea, Austrohelea, Baeodasymyia, Baeohelea, Brachycretacea, Camptopterohelea, Ceratoculicoides, Ceratopalpomyia, Ceratopogon, Eohelea, Fanthamia, Fossihelea, Gedanohelea, Mantohelea, Meunierohelea, Monogedania, Monohelea, Nannohelea, Palaeobrachypogon, Peronehelea, Schizohelea, Serromyia, Stilobezzia, Wirthohelea

Subtaxa: Brachypogon (Brachypogon) Brachypogon (Isohelea) Brachypogon balticus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (5 collections), Mexico (2)

• Eocene of Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (2), India (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (4), Ukraine (3)

Total: 22 collections including 51 occurrences

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