Ceratopogon Meigen 1803 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: J. W. Meigen. 1803. Versuch einer neuen Gattungseintheilung der europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Magazin für Insektenkunde 2:259-281

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

See also Aldrich 1905, Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Carpenter 1992, Kieffer 1906, Remm 1976, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Statz 1944, Szadziewski 1988 and Szadziewski 1996

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

Subtaxa: Ceratopogon (Ceratopogon) Ceratopogon bitterfeldi Ceratopogon ceranowiczi Ceratopogon crypticus Ceratopogon eminens Ceratopogon forcipiformis Ceratopogon gedanicus Ceratopogon grogani Ceratopogon hennigi Ceratopogon kotejai Ceratopogon margaritae Ceratopogon miocaenicus Ceratopogon nanalobus Ceratopogon paraeminens Ceratopogon piotrowskii Ceratopogon pisinnus Ceratopogon remmicola Ceratopogon remmicolus Ceratopogon ritzkowskii Ceratopogon spiniger Ceratopogon subeminens Ceratopogon succinicola Ceratopogon tertiaricus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Oligocene of France (1 collection), Germany (1)

• Eocene of Denmark (2), Germany (2), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (4), Ukraine (4)

Total: 18 collections including 74 occurrences

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