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Brachypogon

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1635267	https://www.gbif.org/species/1635267
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	215502	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=215502

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Ceratopogonidae : Brachypogon

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Mecopterida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera	Linnaeus 1758
infraorder	Culicomorpha
superfamily	Chironomoidea	Macquart 1838
family	Ceratopogonidae	Newman 1834
subfamily	Ceratopogoninae	Newman 1834
tribe	Ceratopogonini	Newman 1834
genus	Brachypogon	Kieffer 1899

Scientific Name

Brachypogon Kieffer, 1899

Name Published In

Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1899

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Brachypogon	genus	belongs to Ceratopogoninae	stated with evidence	Kieffer, 1906
Brachypogon	genus	belongs to Ceratopogonini	stated with evidence	Szadziewski, 1988
Brachypogon	genus	belongs to Ceratopogonidae	stated with evidence	Solórzano Kraemer, 2007
Brachypogon	genus	belongs to Ceratopogonini	stated with evidence	Sontag and Szadziewski, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (21%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. Sontag and R. Szadziewski. 2011. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Eocene Baltic amber from the Rovno region (Ukraine). Polish Journal of Entomology 80:779-800

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Brachypogon (Brachypogon) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		13	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Brachypogon (Isohelea) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		29	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Brachypogon aethiopica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon afifi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon africanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon alexandros species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon americanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon apunctipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon arabicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon artemis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon babiogorenis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon balticus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Brachypogon beaufortanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon bergensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon beskidicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon bialoviesicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon bifidus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon bifurcus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon bimaculatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon biradialis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon bonaerensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon boormani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon borealis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon borkenti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon brazzai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon bryanae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon caecus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon calchaqui species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon calloti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon canadensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon carpaticus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon clastrieri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon corius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon corneti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon corniger species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon cuacuahuitlus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon curtus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon debenhamae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon defectivus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon dehiscens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon delecollei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon demeilloni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon deyrupi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon ecuadorensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon emphuxi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon eocenicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon ethelae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon fagicola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon freidbergi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon fuscivenosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon gearyae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon gedanicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon ginue species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon glukhovae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon gravidus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon griffithsae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon grobleri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon hadrosaurus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon hamiltoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon hamoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon havelkai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon herati species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon hercules species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon hugoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon idolon species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon impar species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon incerticruris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon infarctipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon infrequens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon institor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon insularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon insulicola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon jaroslavi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon kokocinskii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon kraussi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon kremeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon krugeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon krzeminskii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon latifemoris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon libanius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon limushanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon longipalpis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon lorica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon lunatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon maai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon mapuche species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon medusae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon miocaenicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon mireillae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon misionensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon monicae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon nicolaii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon nipponensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon norvegica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon obesus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon optimus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon pakistanicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon pallidipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon papuensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon paraensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon peregrinator species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon phymos species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon pollices species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon proprius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon pruinosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon pseudocanadensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon pseudoparaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon remmi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon riebi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon ringueleti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon schmitzi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon senegalensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon sentiger species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon serratus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon silecis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon sitius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon spatuliformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon spinosipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon spinosissimus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon spinosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon stigmalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon stolida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon subiectus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon sudowicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon surae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon szadziewskii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon tabernaculum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon telesfordi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon tico species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon tokunagai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon ussuriensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon vanharteni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon vitiosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon wirthi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon wirthorum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon woodruffi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon yarimii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brachypogon zavoicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Nilohelea Kieffer, 1921	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Ceratopogonidae : *Nilohelea*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1899	Brachypogon Kieffer
1906	Brachypogon Kieffer p. 59
1988	Brachypogon Szadziewski p. 81
1997	Brachypogon Borkent and Wirth p. 92
2007	Brachypogon Solórzano Kraemer p. 58
2011	Brachypogon Sontag and Szadziewski p. 784
2013	Brachypogon Borkent p. 113

References

Sontag E., Szadziewski R. (2011) Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Eocene Baltic amber from the Rovno region (Ukraine), Polish Journal of Entomology 80, 779-800

Kieffer J. J. (1906) Diptera, Fam. Chironomidae, Genera Insectorum 42, 1-78

Szadziewski R. (1988) Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber, Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57, 3-283

Solórzano Kraemer M. M. (2007) Systematic, palaeoecology, and palaeobiogeography of the insect fauna from Mexican amber, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 282, 1-133

Borkent A. (2013) , World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1899 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Systema Dipterorum (2013) http://www.diptera.org/About.php - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Nilsson, A. (Ed.) (1997) Aquatic insects of North Europe: a taxonomic handbook. Apollo Books, Stenstrup 1997. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Rehnberg, Y (2010) Svidknott (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) – irriterande okända. [Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) – annoyingly unknown.] Ent. Tidskr. 131: 169-176 - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Fauna Europaea (2013) Fauna Europaea, v. 2.6.1: http://www.faunaeur.org/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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