Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Alternative combination: Metahelea roggeroi

Full reference: J. Choufani and A. Nel. 2013. Taxonomic names, in Two new biting midges of the modern type from Santonian amber of France (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet 73-95

Belongs to Stilobezzia according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Choufani and Nel 2013, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea), Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia), Stilobezzia kurthi, Stilobezzia pikei

Type specimen: IGR.PLC-2, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Piolenc amber, which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Piolenc amber

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