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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Species Micropygomyia vexator

trying to identify the insects on the copperhead - Micropygomyia vexator
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))
Infraorder Psychodomorpha
Family Psychodidae (Moth Flies and Sand Flies)
Subfamily Phlebotominae
Genus Micropygomyia
Species vexator (Micropygomyia vexator)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Flebotomus vexator Coquillett, 1907
Lutzomyia vexator
Micropygomyia occidentis Fairchild & Hertig