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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Biting Midges (Ceratopogonidae) » Ceratopogoninae
Photo#188548
Fly_1200 - male
Copyright © 2008 Steve Nanz

Fly_1200 - Male
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
May 31, 2008
Size: ~2.25 mm
Biting Midge?
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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 7 June, 2008 - 4:05am
Last updated 21 September, 2011 - 8:20pm

Moved
Moved from Biting Midges.
… John F. Carr, 21 September, 2011 - 8:20pm login or register to post comments

Ceratopogoninae
This is one of the tribes of Ceratopogoninae where the male has a reduced antenna plume because it is the female's job to find males rather than the male's job to find females.
… John F. Carr, 21 September, 2011 - 8:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera).

Chironomid males have hairs like that when they first emerge, but this isn't one. (Legs are wrong and they don't have three long segments at the end of the antenna, only one.)
… John F. Carr, 28 April, 2009 - 9:47pm login or register to post comments

Ceratopogonidae
This looks like a Ceratopogonid to me, based on the folded trichia of the antennae.
… Chris Borkent, 28 April, 2009 - 9:45pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 25 March, 2009 - 9:02am login or register to post comments

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