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Ceratopogoninae Baltic amber 4
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Subfamily?
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Ceratopogonidae. The long front claws are found only in predatory groups, all of which are in subfamily Ceratopogoninae. Some believe that Ceratopogoninae are not monophyletic.
 
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Compare Fossihelea gracilitarsis (Meunier, 1904) and Stilobezzia. You may be able to distinguish them with

Szadziewski, Ryszard. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic Amber. Polskie pismo entomologiczne, 58(1): 3-283

Both genera are in tribe Ceratopogonini; Stilobezzini was synonymized after the paper was published.
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