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Ceratopogon

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy

Ceratopogon was named by Meigen (1803). It is extant. It is the type genus of Ceratopogonidae, Ceratopogoninae, Ceratopogonini.

It was assigned to Chironomidae by Aldrich (1905); to Ceratopogoninae by Kieffer (1906); to Heleidae by Statz (1944); to Ceratopogonidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Ceratopogonini by Remm (1976), Szadziewski (1988), Szadziewski (1996), Borkent and Wirth (1997), Sontag and Szadziewski (2011), Borkent (2013) and Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonyms

Ceratopogon (Ceratopogon) was named by Meigen (1803). It is extant.

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Ceratopogon by Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

It was assigned to Ceratopogon by Kieffer (1906) and Remm (1976).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1803	Ceratopogon Meigen p. 261
1803	Ceratopogon (Ceratopogon) Meigen p. 261
1905	Ceratopogon Aldrich p. 107
1906	Ceratopogon Kieffer p. 48
1906	Ceratopogon (Ceratopogon) Kieffer p. 49
1944	Ceratopogon Statz p. 152
1976	Ceratopogon (Ceratopogon) Remm p. 347
1976	Ceratopogon Remm p. 350
1988	Ceratopogon Szadziewski p. 52
1992	Ceratopogon Carpenter
1996	Ceratopogon Szadziewski p. 64
1997	Ceratopogon Borkent and Wirth p. 95
2011	Ceratopogon Sontag and Szadziewski p. 785
2013	Ceratopogon Borkent p. 119
2020	Ceratopogon Borkent and Dominiak p. 158

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825

Rank	Name	Author
class	Insecta
order	Diptera
infraorder	Culicomorpha
superfamily	Chironomoidea	Macquart 1838
family	Ceratopogonidae
subfamily	Ceratopogoninae
tribe	Ceratopogonini
genus	Ceratopogon

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Ceratopogon Meigen 1803

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†Ceratopogon bitterfeldi Szadziewski 1993

†Ceratopogon ceranowiczi Szadziewski 1988

†Ceratopogon crypticus Szadziewski 1988

†Ceratopogon eminens Meunier 1904

†Ceratopogon forcipiformis Meunier 1904

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Invalid names: Ceratopogon defectus Meunier 1904 [synonym]

†Ceratopogon gedanicus Szadziewski 1988

†Ceratopogon grogani Szadziewski 1988

†Ceratopogon hennigi Szadziewski 1988

†Ceratopogon kotejai Szadziewski 1993

†Ceratopogon margaritae Szadziewski 1988

†Ceratopogon miocaenicus Szadziewski 1993

†Ceratopogon nanalobus Borkent and Grogan 1995

†Ceratopogon paraeminens Borkent and Grogan 1995

†Ceratopogon piotrowskii Szadziewski 1988

†Ceratopogon pisinnus Borkent and Grogan 1995

†Ceratopogon remmicola Szadziewski 1988

†Ceratopogon remmicolus Szadziewski 1988

†Ceratopogon ritzkowskii Szadziewski 1988

†Ceratopogon spiniger Loew 1850

†Ceratopogon subeminens Szadziewski 1993

†Ceratopogon succinicola Szadziewski 1993

†Ceratopogon tertiaricus Szadziewski 1988

Invalid names: Ceratopogon (Ceratopogon) Meigen 1803 [invalid subgroup]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Chattian or 38.00000 to 23.03000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (17 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Poland	C. sp. (153481 154301) C. sp., C. eminens, C. forcipiformis, C. grogani, C. hennigi, C. margaritae, C. tertiaricus, C. ceranowiczi, C. crypticus, C. gedanicus, C. ritzkowskii, C. remmicolus (120813) C. sp., C. spiniger (109625)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Ukraine	C. sp. (122996 122999) C. sp., C. bitterfeldi, C. forcipiformis, C. grogani, C. hennigi, C. margaritae, C. tertiaricus (122997) C. sp., C. eminens, C. forcipiformis (113621)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	C. eminens, C. forcipiformis, C. defectus, C. spiniger (123927) C. sp. (123221) C. sp., C. forcipiformis (123962) C. sp., C. tertiaricus (123993)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Denmark	C. sp., C. eminens, C. forcipiformis, C. hennigi, C. tertiaricus, C. crypticus, C. piotrowskii, C. ritzkowskii, C. sp. B, C. sp. A, C. sp. C (123762)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Germany (Halle)	C. sp., C. bitterfeldi, C. forcipiformis, C. hennigi, C. miocaenicus, C. subeminens, C. succinicolus (129227) C. sp., C. forcipiformis, C. hennigi, C. kotejai (129228)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)	C. sp. (122488)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)	C. pupa 13, C. pupa 12, C. pupa 11, C. pupa 10, C. pupa 9, C. pupa 8, C. pupa 7, C. pupa 6, C. pupa 5, C. pupa 4, C. pupa 3, C. pupa 2, C. pupa 1, C. sp. (122010)