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Family Ceratopogonidae Newman 1834 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Synonym: Heleidae

Full reference: E. Newman. 1834. Attempted division of British insect into natural orders. The Entomological Magazine 2:379-431

Parent taxon: Chironomoidea according to D. K. Yeates et al. 2007

See also Carpenter 1992, Clapham 2023 and Grogan and Szadziewski 1988

Sister taxa: Anisinodus, Chironomidae

Subtaxa: Adelohelea Alautunmyia Archiculicoides Atriculicoidinae Bezziinae Ceratopogon crassipalpis Ceratopogon madagascariensis Ceratopogon tenuipes Ceratopogon viscatus Ceratopogoninae Forcipomyiinae Gerontodacus Heleageron Lebanoculicoidinae Leptoconopinae Protoculicoides Simulia pasithea Simulium terribilis Sinopogonitinae

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Type: Ceratopogon

Ecology:

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