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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 » Culicoides
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Ceratopogonidae, spotted wings - Culicoides - female
Copyright © 2013 MJ Hatfield

Ceratopogonidae, spotted wings - Culicoides - Female
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
Size: 1.5 mm
Distinctive pattern on wings
Size includes wings
Summer 2013
Lots of tiny insects get through the screen door at night and die on the table. I finally swept them (carefully) into a pile sorting through them looking for the more interesting ones. All tiny, very dead, dried and not in the best of shape.

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Ceratopogonidae, spotted wings - Culicoides - female Ceratopogonidae, spotted wingsX - Culicoides Ceratopogonidae, Spotted wings, tarsi - Culicoides - female Ceratopogonidae, Spotted wings, tarsi - Culicoides
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 17 December, 2013 - 7:29am
Last updated 22 February, 2015 - 2:17pm

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… MJ Hatfield, 17 December, 2013 - 1:13pm login or register to post comments

Ceratopogonidae
Ceratopogonidae female. I don't know which kind. I first thought Dasyhelea which lacks wing markings. Then Culicoides which should have bigger r cells. I don't think Forcipoymia would have that sort of wing markings. Can you get a closeup of claws?
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