Family Ceratopogonidae Newman 1834 (biting midge)
PaleoDB taxon number: 138345
Synonym: Heleidae (taxon 287963)
Parent taxon: Chironomoidea according to D. K. Yeates et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Anisinodus, Chironomidae
Subtaxa: Adelohelea, Alautunmyia, Archiculicoides, Atriculicoidinae, Bezziinae, Ceratopogoninae, Dasyheleinae, Forcipomyiinae, Gerontodacus, Heleageron, Lebanoculicoidinae, Leptoconopinae, Protoculicoides, Simulia pasithea, Simulium terribilis, Sinopogonitinae
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