Heteromyia

Heteromyia
Heteromyia prattii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Ceratopogonidae
Subfamily:	Ceratopogoninae
Tribe:	Heteromyiini
Genus:	Heteromyia Say, 1825
Synonyms [1]
Pachyleptus Walker, 1864

Heteromyia is a genus of biting midges in the family Ceratopogonidae. There are about 17 described species in Heteromyia. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

These 17 species belong to the genus Heteromyia:

• Heteromyia antequerae (Lynch Arribalzaga, 1893)
• Heteromyia bejaranoi Duret & Lane, 1955
• Heteromyia castaenea Lane, 1946
• Heteromyia chaquensis Duret & Lane, 1955
• Heteromyia clavata Williston, 1900
• Heteromyia correntina Duret & Lane, 1955
• Heteromyia dominicana Szadziewski & Grogan, 1997
• Heteromyia fasciata Say, 1825
• Heteromyia kiefferi Lane, 1946
• Heteromyia lamprogaster Edwards, 1933
• Heteromyia nigra Kieffer, 1917
• Heteromyia oedidactyla (Ingram & Macfie, 1931)
• Heteromyia orellana (Roback, 1957)
• Heteromyia prattii (Coquillett, 1902)
• Heteromyia rufa Kieffer, 1917
• Heteromyia turgidipes (Ingram & Macfie, 1931)
• Heteromyia wokei Wirth & Grogan

References

1. "Heteromyia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
2. "Heteromyia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
3. "Heteromyia genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

Further reading

• Borkent, A. (2012). World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) (PDF) (Report). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
• Borkent, Art; Grogan, W. L. Jr. (2009). "Catalog of the New World Biting Midges North of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2273: 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2273.1.1.
• McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN   978-0-660-10731-8.

External links

• Media related to Heteromyia at Wikimedia Commons