Dasyhelea Kieffer 1913 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Synonyms: Dasyhelea (Sebessia) Remm 1979, Sebessia Remm 1979

Parent taxon: Dasyheleini according to A. Borkent et al. 2022

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Carpenter 1992, Park and Downing 2001, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 2019 and Szadziewski and Grogan 1998

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Dasyhelea antilleana Dasyhelea antiqua Dasyhelea browneae Dasyhelea dara Dasyhelea dominicana Dasyhelea eodicryptoscenica Dasyhelea gedanica Dasyhelea hispaniolae Dasyhelea judithae Dasyhelea kanakoffi Dasyhelea minuticola Dasyhelea miocaenica Dasyhelea stanislavi Dasyhelea stenoceras

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections), Mexico (3), New Zealand (1), United States (40: California)

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

Total: 56 collections including 102 occurrences

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