Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1996. Biting midges from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon and Upper Cretaceous Siberian amber of Taimyr (Dipera, Ceratopogonidae). Studia Dipterologica 3:23-86

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

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997 and Szadziewski 1996

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

Subtaxa: Brachycretacea taimyrica

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Type: Baeohelea taimyrica

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

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