Genus Heteromyia

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Print References · Works Cited

Biting Midges Heteromyia prattii Female - Heteromyia prattii - female

Is this in Mycetophilidae? - Heteromyia prattii - female

Biting Midget Heteromyia prattii - Heteromyia prattii

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 Ceratopogoninae

Tribe Heteromyiini

Genus Heteromyia

Numbers

2 spp. in our area, 17 spp. total(1)

Identification

Fore femur greatly swollen; abdomen shining; wing venation, shape, coloration (2).

"A genus of large heteromyiine biting midges distinguished from all other ceratopogonid genera by the following combination of characters: fore femur greatly swollen with 20-30 spines; wing fasciate; hind claw of female greatly enlarged with inner claw smaller than the other." -- Wirth and Grogan 1977

Range

New World, mostly neotropical(1); in our area, e. US (MA to the Gulf of Mexico)(2)

Habitat

"The larva are found in aquatic or semi-aquatic vegetation; rearings have been made from Sphagnum and Cabomba." Wirth and Grogan 1979

Print References

W.W. Wirth and W.L. Grogan, Jr. (1977) Taxonomic notes on the genus Heteromyia Say, and a new species from Nicaragua. The Florida Entomologist 60(3): 177-185.

Works Cited

1.	Borkent A. (2012) World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

2.	Manual of Nearctic Diptera Volume 1 Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood. 1981. Research Branch Agriculture Canada.

Contributed by Keith Bayless on 7 February, 2008 - 11:05am
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 24 October, 2011 - 10:11am

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