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Genus Atrichopogon

biting-midge with pale scutellum - Atrichopogon Diptera - Atrichopogon Unknown Dipteran - Atrichopogon - female Small fly with longish antennae - Atrichopogon - female Female ceratopogonid? - Atrichopogon minutus - female Female ceratopogonid? - Atrichopogon minutus - female Female ceratopogonid? - Atrichopogon minutus - female Aquatic Invert ID Needed - Atrichopogon
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))
Infraorder Culicomorpha (Mosquitoes and Midges)
Family Ceratopogonidae (Biting Midges)
Subfamily Forcipomyiinae
Genus Atrichopogon
Explanation of Names
Atrichopogon Kieffer, 1906
Numbers
Over 20 described species in North America, but most specimens in collections belong to undescribed species. Hundreds of species worldwide.
Print References
Boesel M.W. (1973) The genus Atrichopogon in Ohio and neighboring states. Ohio Journal of Science 73: 202 Full text