Paradasyhelea, Macfie, 1940

Borkent, Art, 2024, The Phylogeny of the Genera of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of the World, Zootaxa 5438 (1), pp. 1-274 : 224

Paradasyhelea :

- Posteromedial area of scutum with pair of tubercles. Such tubercles are present in some other taxa (i.e. some Culicoides , some Stilobezzia ) but these are not as developed as in Paradasyhelea . Numbers of species were examined in this regard, as follows: P. albipunctata Wirth & Lee , P. macfiei , P. minuta , P. olympiae , unnamed species from New Caledonia, Western Australia, and New Zealand. Paradasyhelea harrisoni and some undescribed species from New Zealand may not have the well-developed tubercles but the slide mounts were perhaps poorly oriented.

- Foretibial comb very reduced or absent. Although not unique in the family, it is otherwise reduced in Baeohelea + Baeodasymyia , also very tiny members of the family.