Pelopia Latreille 1802 (non biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467

Parent taxon: Chironomidae according to N. L. Evenhuis and T. Pape 2017

See also Evenhuis 1994, Latreille 1802 and Statz 1944

Sister taxa: Aenneinae, Aphroteniinae, Buchonomyiinae, Calopsectra, Chironominae, Chironomopsis, Coelochironoma, Corynocera, Cricotopiella, Diamesa, Diamesinae, Dicrotendipes, Eurycnemus, Huabeitendipes, Jentzschiella, Jurochlus, Langtonius, Liauningius, Libanochlites, Manlayamyia, Mogsonomus, Nomochirus, Orthocladiinae, Orusa, Podonominae, Polypedilum, Prodiamesinae, Sendelia, Sergentia, Sinoryctochlus, Stictochironomus, Tanypodinae, Tinactum, Ulaiinae, Ulaimailia, Ulaimailonia, Ulaimailoniella, Viduata, Pelopiina, Tendipopsis, Protobibio

Subtaxa: none

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rott (Statz Collection) (Oligocene of Germany)

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