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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Arthropods > Insecta > Pterygota > Neoptera > Holometabola > Diptera > Nematocera > Culicomorpha > Ceratopogonidae

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Ceratopogonidae  

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Entry terms

  • Biting Midge
  • Biting Midges
  • Midge, Biting
  • Midges, Biting

Note

  • for killing Ceratopogonidae with insecticides, see note at INSECTICIDES ; gall midges: index NEMATOCERA

Scope note

  • A family of biting midges, in the order DIPTERA. It includes the genus Culicoides which transmits filarial parasites pathogenic to man and other primates.

History note

  • 81; was see CULICOIDES 1975-80; CULICOIDES was heading 1963-80; MIDGES was see under DIPTERA 1975-80

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002519

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