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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 » Heteromyiini » Clinohelea

Genus Clinohelea

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Biting Midge - Clinohelea bimaculata - male

Found on a leaf - Clinohelea bimaculata - female

Biting Midge - Clinohelea bimaculata - female

Biting Midge Clinohelea currei - Clinohelea currei - female

biting midge - Clinohelea currei - female

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 Clinohelea

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Clinohelea Kieffer 1917

Explanation of Names

Helea is an old name for Ceratopogon

Numbers

7 spp. in our area(1), ~40 worldwide(2)

Size

Near 3 mm

Identification

Characters include a greatly swollen front fifth tarsomere and large, unequal claws on the hind legs of the female.

Range

worldwide(2)

Habitat

Larvae are aquatic. Adults are found near water.

Food

Adults are predaceous on other insects

Remarks

Named species are

C. bimaculata (Loew); two prominent dark stripes on wing; e. US and possibly into Canada

C. longitheca Grogan and Wirth; FL

C. currei (Coquillett) = C. nebulosa (Malloch); brown cloud in center of wing or covering entire wing, fore 5th tarsomere with pale band longer than width of tarsomere; most common in north

C. nubifera (Coquillett); FL + one NY record

C. dimidiatus (Adams)

C. usingeri Wirth

C. pseudonubifera Grogan and Wirth

Internet References

Grogan, W.L., Jr., and W.W. Wirth (1976) A revision of the Nearctic species of Clinohelea Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Great Basin Naturalist (1975) 35: 275-287.

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

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

Contributed by John F. Carr on 24 July, 2009 - 8:25pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 10 October, 2011 - 12:33pm

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