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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 » Predaceous Midges (Ceratopogonini) » Stilobezzia » Stilobezzia beckae
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Predaceous Midge - Stilobezzia beckae - female
Copyright © 2009 Robert Lord Zimlich

Predaceous Midge - Stilobezzia beckae - Female
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
May 19, 2009
Size: 2-3mm
My, what big eyes you have.
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 20 May, 2009 - 6:50pm
Last updated 8 February, 2013 - 7:25am

Moved
Moved from Stilobezzia.
… John F. Carr, 24 September, 2011 - 7:46pm login or register to post comments

Maybe Stilobezzia Beckae
Best guess, Stilobezzia beckae. See Wirth 1953 p. 69 (PDF page 89). There are some minor color differences.
… John F. Carr, 14 July, 2011 - 7:14pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ceratopogoninae. Two species have this general appearance.
… John F. Carr, 11 June, 2011 - 4:21pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Biting Midges. What big claws you have.
… John F. Carr, 22 January, 2011 - 7:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 9 July, 2009 - 5:45pm login or register to post comments

sweet midge!
anyone?
… v belov, 20 May, 2009 - 7:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Could be biting midge
I'm guessing female Ceratopogonidae, which tend to have the last three (more or less) antenna segments elongated. Males have fuzzy antennae, but the hairs are nearly parallel to the antennae unlike the non-biting and phantom midges.
… John F. Carr, 20 May, 2009 - 8:16pm login or register to post comments

Interesting
Do you have a top view showing the wing veins better?
… John F. Carr, 20 May, 2009 - 6:58pm login or register to post comments

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