Metacanthohelea, Wirth & Grogan, 1988

Borkent, Art, 2024, The Phylogeny of the Genera of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of the World, Zootaxa 5438 (1), pp. 1-274 : 229

Metacanthohelea :

- Male cercus, quite slender, elongate, finger-like. The cercus of most other ceratopogonids is either lobe-like or, if more elongate, somewhat flattened mediolaterally. However, the feature is also present in Isthmohelea , where the cercus is significantly thicker than in Metacanthohelea .