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Welcome to Family Ceratopogonidae!

Ceratopogonidae - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Subclass Pterygota > Order Diptera > Suborder Nematocera > Infraorder Culicomorpha > Superfamily Chironomoidea > Family Ceratopogonidae

(From Wikipedia) Ceratopogonidae is a family of flies commonly known as no-see-ums, or biting midges, generally 1-3 millimetres in length.

FACT: Unlike the piercing mouthparts of mosquitoes, biting midges have cutting mouthparts, causing unpleasantly itchy lesions where they bite!

Currently discovered: 1/5 Subfamilies, 0/7 Genera

Subfamily

  1. Ceratopogoninae