Tribe Forcipomyiini Lenz 1934 (biting midge)
Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Parent taxon: Forcipomyiinae according to R. Szadziewski et al. 2026
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent et al. 2022, Szadziewski and Grogan 1998 and Szadziewski et al. 2021
Sister taxon: Dasyheleini
Subtaxa: Atrichopogon Forcipomyia
Type: Forcipomyia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (6 collections), Ethiopia (1), Mexico (7), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (2), India (3), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (3)
Total: 35 collections including 126 occurrences