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Genus Atrichopogon

Ceratopogonid - Atrichopogon levis - female

Coleoptera and Diptera - Atrichopogon - female

Female ceratopogonid? - Atrichopogon minutus - female

A. minutus specimen - Atrichopogon minutus

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 Forcipomyiinae

Genus Atrichopogon

Explanation of Names

Atrichopogon Kieffer, 1906

Numbers

Over 20 described species in North America, but most specimens in collections belong to undescribed species. Hundreds of species worldwide.

Print References

Boesel M.W. (1973) The genus Atrichopogon in Ohio and neighboring states. Ohio Journal of Science 73: 202 Full text

Contributed by John F. Carr on 10 July, 2010 - 7:04pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, v belov
Last updated 4 December, 2023 - 10:16am

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