CERATOCHEILUS Wesché, 1910

Kopeć, Katarzyna, Kania, Iwona & Krzemiński, Wiesław, 2016, New and little known crane-fly species of the genera Helius, Elephantomyia and Toxorhina (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Dominican and Mexican amber, Palaeontologia Electronica 13 (8), pp. 1-14 : 10

Subgenus CERATOCHEILUS Wesché, 1910

Type species. Ceratocheilus winnsampsoni Wesché, 1910 .

The genus is represented by almost 150 extant species, occurring mainly in Australian and Oceanian region. Over 30 species were reported from the Neotropic and Afrotropic. In Palearctic Region the genus Toxorhina is not represented ( Oosterbroek, 2015).

Until recently, only three fossil species had been described from Eocene Baltic amber ( Meunier, 1917), Miocene of Russia ( Krzemiński and Freiwald, 1991) and Holocene of Madagascar ( Meunier, 1906).