Monohelea Kieffer 1917 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: J. J. Kieffer. 1917. Chironomides d'Amérique conservés au Musée National Hongrois de Budapest. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 15:292-364

Parent taxon: Ceratopogonini according to R. Szadziewski et al. 2022

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Peñalver et al. 2021, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011 and Szadziewski 1988

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

Subtaxa: none

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Australia (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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