Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Synonym: Devalquia Choufani and Nel 2013
Parent taxon: Culicoidini according to E. Peñalver et al. 2021
See also Borkent 1995, Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Choufani and Nel 2013, Choufani et al. 2014, Grogan and Szadziewski 1988, Kieffer 1906, Park and Downing 2001, Pielowska et al. 2018, Remm 1976, Solórzano Kraemer 2007, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Statz 1944, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1996 and Szadziewski et al. 2016
Sister taxon: Washingtonhelea
Subtaxa: Culicoides (Groganomyia) Culicoides (Oecacta) Culicoides abbreviatipennis Culicoides agamus Culicoides ambericus Culicoides annosus Culicoides antilleanus Culicoides atratus Culicoides austerus Culicoides balticus Culicoides bicolor Culicoides bifidus Culicoides brisaci Culicoides brodzinskyi Culicoides bullus Culicoides canadensis Culicoides casei Culicoides ceranowiczi Culicoides dasyheleiformis Culicoides doyeni Culicoides elongatulus Culicoides eoselficus Culicoides filipalpis Culicoides gedanensis Culicoides gracilior Culicoides grandibocus Culicoides hispanicola Culicoides jucundus Culicoides kaluginae Culicoides liliputanus Culicoides mammalicola Culicoides megacanthus Culicoides obesus Culicoides obscuratus Culicoides obuncus Culicoides paleopestis Culicoides prussicus Culicoides speciosus Culicoides sphenostylus Culicoides subgedanensis Culicoides succineus Culicoides succivarius Culicoides tenuipennis Culicoides truncatus Culicoides tyrrelli Culicoides ventralis Culicoides yoosti
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections), Mexico (1), United States (5: California)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Denmark (1), Germany (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (4), Ukraine (3)
• Cretaceous of Canada (11: Alberta, Manitoba), France (2), Myanmar (3), the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: New Jersey)
Total: 44 collections including 116 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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