Culicoidini

Culicoidini
Culicoides sonorensis after blood meal
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Ceratopogonidae
Subfamily: Ceratopogoninae
Tribe:
Genera

Several, see text

The Culicoidini is a tribe of biting midges.[1]

Genera include:

It is not quite clear which taxa should be considered full genera, and which ones mere subgenera and included in Culicoides.

References

  1. ^ Remm, Kh (September 1975). "[Classification of the midge family (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae)]". Parazitologiia. 9 (5): 393–397. ISSN 0031-1847. PMID 1187170.
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