Austrohelea Wirth and Grogan 1988 (biting midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Parent taxon: Ceratopogonini according to R. Szadziewski et al. 2022
See also Borkent and Dominiak 2020 and Schmidt et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Alluaudomyia, Atyphohelea, Baeodasymyia, Baeohelea, Brachycretacea, Brachypogon, Camptopterohelea, Ceratoculicoides, Ceratopalpomyia, Ceratopogon, Eohelea, Fanthamia, Fossihelea, Gedanohelea, Mantohelea, Meunierohelea, Monogedania, Monohelea, Nannohelea, Nelohelea, Palaeobrachypogon, Peronehelea, Schizohelea, Serromyia, Stilobezzia, Wirthohelea
Subtaxa: none
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Pomahaka amber (Oligocene of New Zealand)
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