Subgenus Microhelea Kieffer

Microhelea Kieffer, 1917b: 364 . Type species, Atrichopogon microtomus Kieffer, sub. des. by Kieffer, 1921a: 7, with explanatory notation on erroneous previous type designation. Refs.: Clastrier & Wirth, 1995 (key to females in ixodoides group); Huerta, 1996 (key to males and females from Mexico); Wirth, 1972 (key to females in fuliginosa group). Phasmidohelea Mayer, 1937: 233 . Type species, Phasmidohelea crudelis Mayer (= Ceratopogon fuliginosus Meigen) (orig. des.).