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Mantohelea ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4795997	https://www.gbif.org/species/4795997
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	182302	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=182302

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Ceratopogonidae : Mantohelea

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	Mantohelea	Szadziewski 1988

Scientific Name

Mantohelea Szadziewski, 1988

Name Published In

Pol Pismo Entomol 58 (1)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mantohelea	genus	belongs to Stilobezziini	stated with evidence	Szadziewski, 1988
Mantohelea	genus	belongs to Ceratopogonini	stated with evidence	Borkent and Wirth, 1997
Mantohelea	genus	belongs to Ceratopogonidae	stated with evidence	Szadziewski et al., 2007
Mantohelea	genus	belongs to Ceratopogonini	stated with evidence	Sontag and Szadziewski, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ceratopogon lacus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mantohelea gedanica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Mantohelea laca ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Mantohelea sinica ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1988	Mantohelea Szadziewski p. 144
1997	Mantohelea Borkent and Wirth p. 101
2007	Mantohelea Szadziewski et al.
2011	Mantohelea Sontag and Szadziewski p. 789
2013	Mantohelea Borkent p. 125
2016	Mantohelea Stebner et al. p. 2

References

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

Szadziewski R., Gika W., et al (2007) First descriptions of males from Eocene Baltic Amber in the fossil genus Mantohelea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Alavesia 1, 37-40

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

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

Stebner F., Szadziewski R., et al (2016) Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Fushun amber reveal further biotic links between Asia and Europe during the Eocene, Palaeontologia Electronica 19 3.31A, 1-9

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/Stang, 2004-present - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Pol Pismo Entomol 58 (1) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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