Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative spelling: Atriculicoidini
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: Ceratopogonidae according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Szadziewski 1996, Szadziewski 2004, Szadziewski et al. 2016 and Szadziewski and Sontag 2019
Sister taxa: Adelohelea, Alautunmyia, Archiculicoides, Ceratopogon crassipalpis, Ceratopogon madagascariensis, Ceratopogon tenuipes, Ceratopogon viscatus, Ceratopogoninae, Forcipomyiinae, Gerontodacus, Heleageron, Lebanoculicoidinae, Leptoconopinae, Protoculicoides, Simulia pasithea, Simulium terribilis, Sinopogonitinae, Bezziinae
Subtaxa: Atriculicoides Burmahelea
Type: Atriculicoides
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (10: Alberta, Manitoba collections), France (1), Myanmar (3), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (2), United States (2: New Jersey)
Total: 21 collections including 37 occurrences