Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Synonym: Chimaerohelea Debenham 1988
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283
Parent taxon: Ceratopogonini according to E. Peñalver et al. 2021
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Stebner and Szadziewski 2017, Szadziewski 1988 and Szadziewski et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Alluaudomyia, Atyphohelea, Austrohelea, Baeodasymyia, Baeohelea, Brachycretacea, Brachypogon, Camptopterohelea, Ceratoculicoides, Ceratopalpomyia, Ceratopogon, Eohelea, Fanthamia, Fossihelea, Gedanohelea, Mantohelea, Monogedania, Monohelea, Nannohelea, Nelohelea, Palaeobrachypogon, Peronehelea, Schizohelea, Serromyia, Stilobezzia, Wirthohelea
Subtaxa: Meunierohelea anglesensis Meunierohelea borkenti Meunierohelea cambayana Meunierohelea fudalai Meunierohelea gedanicola Meunierohelea miocaenica Meunierohelea nielseni Meunierohelea orientalis Meunierohelea wirthi
Type: Meunierohelea nielseni
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Denmark (1), Germany (2), India (2), Poland (3), Ukraine (4)
Total: 14 collections including 25 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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