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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Biting Midges (Ceratopogonidae) » Forcipomyiinae » Atrichopogon
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Biting Midge - Atrichopogon - male
Copyright © 2010 tom murray

Biting Midge - Atrichopogon - Male
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 27, 2010

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Contributed by tom murray on 28 September, 2010 - 8:32pm
Last updated 22 January, 2011 - 6:59pm

Could be levis or geminus
This resembles Atrichopogon levis and A. geminus.
… John F. Carr, 3 January, 2012 - 7:32am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Biting Midges. I'm not certain but this seems the most likely genus.
… John F. Carr, 22 January, 2011 - 6:59pm login or register to post comments

Male
In this family all the flies with dense tufts of hair along antennae are male. The reverse is not true. Unplumed males are common, unlike in the non-biting midges.

Same location as

?
… John F. Carr, 28 September, 2010 - 9:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Same location
Both were at my porch lights.
… tom murray, 28 September, 2010 - 9:07pm login or register to post comments

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