Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: R. Szadziewski and E. Sontag. 2019. Taxonomic names, in Two new genera of insectivorous biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Palaeoentomology 2:657-664

Parent taxon: Ceratopogonini according to R. Szadziewski and E. Sontag 2019

Sister taxa: Alluaudomyia, Atyphohelea, Austrohelea, Baeodasymyia, Baeohelea, Brachycretacea, Brachypogon, Camptopterohelea, Ceratoculicoides, Ceratopalpomyia, Ceratopogon, Eohelea, Fanthamia, Fossihelea, Gedanohelea, Mantohelea, Meunierohelea, Monogedania, Monohelea, Nannohelea, Palaeobrachypogon, Peronehelea, Schizohelea, Serromyia, Stilobezzia, Wirthohelea

Subtaxa: Nelohelea neli

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Type: Nelohelea neli

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (ISEA Krakow collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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