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Genus Stilobezzia

Diptera - Stilobezzia sybleae Biting Midge - Stilobezzia - male midge - Stilobezzia coquilletti - male Ceratopogonidae, distinctive little fly - Stilobezzia coquilletti - female biting midge - Stilobezzia antennalis - female predaceous midge - Stilobezzia - male Stilobezzia coquilletti fly - Stilobezzia antennalis
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 Ceratopogonini (Predaceous Midges)
Genus Stilobezzia
Numbers
18 spp. in 3 subgenera in our area(1), ~340 spp. in 4 subgenera worldwide(2)
Identification
Characters include M petiolate with long stem, costa extending at least 2/3 length of wing, wing usually with two R cells, legs not swollen, female claws large, adbomen or thorax usually marked. See Wirth 1953 or Wirth and Grogan 1988(3) for full set of characters.
Wings are often spread at rest, unlike other Ceratopogonidae.
Range
much of the world, but mostly palaeotropical(2)
Food
Tribe Certatopogonini is generally predatory on other insects.
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