Ceratopogonidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera Suborder: Nematocera Infraorder: Culicomorpha Superfamily: Chironomoidea Family: Ceratopogonidae
Subfamilies
Forcipomyiinae Dasyheleinae Ceratopogoninae Leptoconopinae Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 522 pixels Full resolution (948 × 618 pixel, file size: 78 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ceratopogonidae ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Animalia redirects here. ... Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - spiders,scorpions, etc. ... Orders See taxonomy Insects (Class Insecta) are a major group of arthropods and the most diverse group of animals on the Earth, with over a million described species—more than all other animal groups combined. ... Suborders Nematocera (includes Eudiptera) Brachycera Diptera (di - two, ptera - wings), or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. ... Nematocera are generally primitive flies, all with filamentous antennae which may be plumose in some males. ... Superfamilies Culicoidea Chironomoidea See text for families. ... Chironomoidea is a superfamily within the order Diptera, suborder Nematocera, infraorder Culicomorpha. ... Genera Atrichopogon Forcipomyia Forcipomyiinae is a subfamily of biting midges. ... Species Dasyhelea aegealitis Dasyhelea ancora Dasyhelea atlantis Dasyhelea atrata Dasyhelea bahamensis Dasyhelea bajensis Dasyhelea bermudae Dasyhelea bifida Dasyhelea brevicornis Dasyhelea brevicosta Dasyhelea brookmani Dasyhelea cactorum Dasyhelea cincta Dasyhelea clavescens Dasyhelea crassiseta Dasyhelea fasciigera Dasyhelea festiva Dasyhelea grisea Dasyhelea hawaiiensis Dasyhelea johannseni Dasyhelea leptobranchia Dasyhelea luteogrisea Dasyhelea maculata Dasyhelea major Dasyhelea... Tribes Ceratopogonini Culicoidini Heteromyiini Palpomyiini Sphaeromiini Stenoxenini Ceratopogoninae is a subfamily of biting midges. ... Species Leptoconops americanus Leptoconops andersoni Leptoconops arnaudi Leptoconops asilomar Leptoconops atchleyi Leptoconops australiensis Leptoconops belkini Leptoconops bequaerti Leptoconops borealis Leptoconops californiensis Leptoconops carteri Leptoconops catawbae Leptoconops floridensis Leptoconops foulki Leptoconops freeborni Leptoconops irritans Leptoconops kerteszi Leptoconops knowltoni Leptoconops linleyi Leptoconops melanderi Leptoconops mohavensis Leptoconops nipponensis Leptoconops ressi Leptoconops spinosifrons Leptoconops...

Ceratopogonidae, or biting midges (or, in the United States, no-see-ums, sand flies, punkies, and others), are a family of small flies (1-4 mm long) in the order Diptera. They are closely related to the Chironomidae, Simuliidae, and Thaumaleidae. They are found in almost any aquatic or semiaquatic habitat throughout the world. Females of most species are adapted to suck blood from some kind of host animal. Culicoides, Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea), and Leptoconops suck vertebrate blood. Some Atrichopogon and Forcipomyia are ectoparasites on larger insects. Dasyhelea feed exclusively on nectar. Species in other genera are predatory on other small insects. Larvae are always found in some damp location, such as under bark, in rotten wood, compost, mud, stream margins, tree holes, or water-holding plants (i.e., phytotelmata). Many of the blood-sucking species, or those that feed via hematophagy, are pests in beach or mountain habitats. Other species are important pollinators of tropical crops such as cacao. The blood-sucking species may be vectors of disease-causing viruses, protozoa, and filarial worms. Sandfly is the common name of a flying, biting, blood-sucking insect found in many countries. ... Suborders Nematocera (includes Eudiptera) Brachycera Diptera (di - two, ptera - wings), or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. ... Chironomidae are a family of Nematoceran Diptera closely related to the Ceratopogonidae, Simuliidae, and Thaumaleidae. ... Genera Many, including Simulium Prosimulium A Black Fly (sometimes called a Buffalo Gnat or Turkey Gnat) is any member of the family Simuliidae of the Culicomorpha infraorder. ... Genera Afrothaumalea Androprosopa Austrothaumalea Thaumalea Trichothaumalea Thaumaleidae, or solitary midges, are a group of nematoceran flies related to the Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, and the Simuliidae. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... Human blood smear: a - erythrocytes; b - neutrophil; c - eosinophil; d - lymphocyte. ... Classes and Clades See below Male and female Superb Fairy-wren Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata (within the phylum Chordata), specifically, those chordates with backbones or spinal columns. ... Human blood smear: a - erythrocytes; b - neutrophil; c - eosinophil; d - lymphocyte. ... A parasite is an organism that lives in or on the living tissue of a host organism at the expense of that host. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... For other uses of the word, please see Genus (disambiguation). ... 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In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... A pollinator is the agent that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization or syngamy of the female gamete in the ovule of the flower by the male gamete from the pollen grain. ... A crop is any plant that is grown in significant quantities to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or for another economic purpose. ... Binomial name Theobroma cacao L. Cacao (Theobroma cacao) is a small (4–8 m tall) evergreen tree in the family Sterculiaceae (alternatively Malvaceae), native to tropical Mexico, but now cultivated throughout the tropics. ... An Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... Traditionally in medicine, a vector is an organism that does not cause disease itself but which spreads infection by conveying pathogens from one host to another. ... The term disease refers to an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs function. ... Stop editing pages god ... Wikisource has an original article from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica about: Protozoa Protozoa (in Greek proto = first and zoa = animals) are single-celled eukaryotes (organisms whose cells have nuclei) that commonly show characteristics usually associated with animals, most notably mobility and heterotrophy. ...

References

• Blanton, F.S. and W.W. Wirth. 1979. The sand flies (Culicoides) of Florida (Ceratopogonidae). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas Volume 10. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
• Borkent, A. and W.W. Wirth. 1997. World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 233: 1-257.
• Clastrier, J. and W.W. Wirth. 1978. The Leptoconops kerteszi complex in North America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin Number 1573.
• Downes, J.A. and W.W. Wirth. 1981. Chapter 28: Ceratopogonidae. Pp. 393-421. In: McAlpine, J.F., B.V. Peterson, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, and D.M. Wood. Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume 1. Agriculture Canada Monograph 27.
• Mullen, G.R. and L.J. Hribar. 1988. Biology and feeding behavior of ceratopogonid larvae (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in North America. Bulletin of the Society for Vector Ecology 13: 60-81.
• Wirth, W.W. and F.S. Blanton. 1974. The West Indian sandflies of the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin Number 1474.
• Wirth, W.W. and W.L. Grogan, Jr. 1988. The Predaceous Midges of the World (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae; Tribe Ceratopogonini). Flora and Fauna Handbook Number 4. E.J. Brill Publishers, Leiden. xv + 160 pp.
• Wirth, W.W., N.C. Ratanaworabhan, and D.H. Messersmith. 1977. Natural history of Plummers Island, Maryland. XXII. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). 1. Introduction and key to genera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 90(3): 615-647.

External links

• British insects: the families of Diptera - Delta guides, Biodiversity and Biological Collections
• Ceratopogonidae - AAFC, Government of Canada
• The Ceratopogonidae - Inbio Site, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• Ceratopogonid Web Page - Belmont University