Fossihelea Szadziewski 1988 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283

Parent taxon: Ceratopogonini according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011 and Szadziewski 1988

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

Subtaxa: Fossihelea gracilitarsis Fossihelea miocaenica

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Type: Ceratopogon gracilitarsis

Ecology:

Distribution:

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

Total: 9 collections including 14 occurrences

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