Palpomyiini

Palpomyiini
Bezzia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Ceratopogonidae
Subfamily:	Ceratopogoninae
Tribe:	Palpomyiini

Palpomyiini is a tribe of biting midges in the family Ceratopogonidae. There are about 5 genera and more than 610 described species in Palpomyiini. ^{[1] [2]}

Palpomyia

Genera

These five genera belong to the tribe Palpomyiini:

• Amerohelea Grogan & Wirth, 1981
• Bezzia Kieffer, 1899
• Pachyhelea Wirth, 1959
• Palpomyia Meigen
• Phaenobezzia Haeselbarth, 1965

References

1. "Palpomyiini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Palpomyiini tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

• Borkent, A. (2012). World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) (PDF) (Report). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
• Borkent, Art; Grogan, W. L. Jr. (2009). "Catalog of the New World Biting Midges North of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2273: 1–48. ISSN   1175-5326.
• 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 Palpomyiini at Wikimedia Commons