Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: E. Newman. 1834. Attempted division of British insect into natural orders. The Entomological Magazine 2:379-431
Parent taxon: Ceratopogonidae according to R. Szadziewski et al. 2022
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Choufani et al. 2014, Kieffer 1906, Kieffer 1911, Peñalver et al. 2021, Pielowska et al. 2018, Remm 1976, Stebner et al. 2016, Stebner and Szadziewski 2017, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1990, Szadziewski 1996, Szadziewski 2019, Szadziewski and Sontag 2019 and Szadziewski et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Adelohelea, Alautunmyia, Archiculicoides, Atriculicoidinae, Ceratopogon crassipalpis, Ceratopogon madagascariensis, Ceratopogon tenuipes, Ceratopogon viscatus, Forcipomyiinae, Gerontodacus, Heleageron, Lebanoculicoidinae, Leptoconopinae, Protoculicoides, Simulia pasithea, Simulium terribilis, Sinopogonitinae, Bezziinae
Subtaxa: Ceratopogon escheri Ceratopogonini Culicoides carri Culicoides fossilis Culicoides laurae Culicoides mioceneus Culicoidini Heteromyiini Johannsenomyia hotchkissae Johannsenomyiini Neoculicoides Neoculicoides jeanneae Palpomyiini Sphaeromiini
Type: Ceratopogon
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (7 collections), Mexico (4), United States (19: California)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (3), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Australia (1), China (2), Denmark (2), Germany (4), India (2), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (7), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Montana)
• Cretaceous of Canada (12: Alberta, Manitoba), France (2), Myanmar (3), the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: New Jersey)
Total: 88 collections including 541 occurrences