Tribe Forcipomyiini Lenz 1934 (biting midge)
Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Parent taxon: Forcipomyiinae according to A. Borkent et al. 2022
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, 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 China (1), Denmark (1), Germany (2), India (3), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (3)
Total: 35 collections including 126 occurrences