Subfamily Leptoconopinae Noe 1907 (biting midge)
Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 213285
Synonym: Austroconopinae Borkent et al. 1987 (taxon 213294)
Parent taxon: Ceratopogonidae according to P. Dominiak et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Adelohelea, Alautunmyia, Archiculicoides, Atriculicoidinae, Ceratopogoninae, Dasyheleinae, Forcipomyiinae, Gerontodacus, Heleageron, Lebanoculicoidinae, Protoculicoides, Simulia pasithea, Simulium terribilis, Sinopogonitinae, Bezziinae
Subtaxa: Archiaustroconops, Austroconops, Fossileptoconops, Jordanoconops, Leptoconops, Minyohelea
Ecology: