Bothahelea, Grogan & Wirth, 1983

Borkent, Art, 2024, The Phylogeny of the Genera of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of the World, Zootaxa 5438 (1), pp. 1-274 : 226

Bothahelea :

- Female abdomen with darkly pigmented, slightly curved sclerite between the medially separated halves of abdominal sternite 9. This pigmented structure may be present in some other taxa as a translucent structure and further study is warranted regarding homologies. Regardless, this is the only taxon with such a pigmented feature, other than Bahiahelea , where it is a strongly curved sclerite.