Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Synonym: Stilobezziini Wirth 1952
Full reference: E. Newman. 1834. Attempted division of British insect into natural orders. The Entomological Magazine 2:379-431
Parent taxon: Ceratopogoninae according to R. Szadziewski et al. 2022
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Peñalver et al. 2021, Remm 1976, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Stebner et al. 2016, Stebner and Szadziewski 2017, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1996, Szadziewski 2019, Szadziewski and Sontag 2019 and Szadziewski et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Ceratopogon escheri, Culicoides carri, Culicoides fossilis, Culicoides laurae, Culicoides mioceneus, Culicoidini, Heteromyiini, Johannsenomyia hotchkissae, Johannsenomyiini, Neoculicoides, Neoculicoides jeanneae, Palpomyiini, Sphaeromiini
Subtaxa: 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 Stilobezzia Wirthohelea
Type: Ceratopogon
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (6 collections), Mexico (4)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (3), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Australia (1), China (1), Denmark (2), Germany (4), India (2), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Montana)
• Cretaceous of Canada (11: Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan), France (1), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: New Jersey)
Total: 61 collections including 361 occurrences