Forcipomyia

Forcipomyia
A Forcipomyia sp. sucks hemolymph from Nemophora metallica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Ceratopogonidae
Subfamily:	Forcipomyiinae
Genus:	Forcipomyia Meigen, 1818
subgenera
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Forcipomyia is a genus of biting midges in the subfamily Forcipomyiinae. Species of the subgenus Lasiohelea suck vertebrate blood. Some species are ectoparasites on larger insects. Other species in the genus are important pollinators of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao).^[1]

Subgenera

• Forcipomyia (Atopomyia)
• Forcipomyia (Baliohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Bassoforcipomyia)
• Forcipomyia (Blantonia)
• Forcipomyia (Caloforcipomyia)
• Forcipomyia (Collessohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Dycea)
• Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia)
• Forcipomyia (Forcipohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia)
• Forcipomyia (Gampsohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Herakleohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Ixodehelea)
• Forcipomyia (Japygahelea)
• Forcipomyia (Kattangomyia)
• Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Microhelea)
• Forcipomyia (Nicothohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Oreinohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Panhelea)
• Forcipomyia (Pedilohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Phytohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Pterobosca)
• Forcipomyia (Rhinohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Rhynchoforcipomyia)
• Forcipomyia (Schineromyia)
• Forcipomyia (Schizoforcipomyia)
• Forcipomyia (Synthyridomyia)
• Forcipomyia (Thyridomyia)
• Forcipomyia (Trichohelea)
• Forcipomyia (Trithicomyia)
• Forcipomyia (Typhonomyia)
• Forcipomyia (Warmkea)

References

1. Studies on the ecology and biology of a cocoa pollinator, Forcipomyia squamipennis I. & M. (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae), in Ghana. T. Kaufmann, Bulletin of Entomological Research, Volume 65, Issue 02, June 1975, pages 263-268, doi:10.1017/S0007485300005940

• Borkent, A. 2011: World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae).
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• Debenham, M.L. 1987: The biting midge genus Forcipomyia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in the Australasian region (exclusive of New Zealand). I. Introduction, key to subgenera, and the Thyridomyia and Trichohelea groups of subgenera. Invertebrate taxonomy, 1(1): 35-119. doi:10.1071/IT9870035
• Debenham, M.L. 1987: The biting midge genus Forcipomyia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in the Australasian region (exclusive of New Zealand). II. Warmkea and the Caloforcipomyia group of subgenera. Invertebrate taxonomy, 1(2): 167-199. doi:10.1071/IT9870167
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• Johannsen, O.A., 1950: A New Pterobosca from Florida with a Key to American Species. Florida Entomologist, 33 (4): 141-144.
• Liu, Y-q.; Chen, H-y.; Yu, Y-x. 2009: A key of Forciomyia [Forcipomyia] (Synthyridomyia) with discription [description] of a new species from China (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Sichuan journal of zoology, 28(4): 521-523.
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• Marino, P.I.; Spinelli, G.R. 2008: Biting midges of the Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) argenteola group in southern South America, with description of a new species and a key to the Neotropical species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). International journal of tropical biology and conservation, 56(2): 789-794.
• Meigen, J. 1818. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten 1, v-xii, xxxvi + 1-332. Friedrich Wilhelm Forstmann, Aachen. reference page BHL ZooBank
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• Sun, H.; Ke, M.-J.; Li, S.-X.; Li, L.-Y.; Yu, Y.-x. 2009: Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Zhuhai, China. New species and new record of the genus Forcipomyia Miegen. Acta Parasitology et Medica Entomologica Sinica, 16(2): 104-106. ISSN 1005-0507
• Szadziewski, R., 1988: Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie pismo entomologiczne, 58(1): 3-283.
• Szadziewski, R., 1990: Biting midges (Insecta: Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Sakhalin amber. Prace Muzeum Ziemi, 41: 77-81.
• Szadziewski, R., 1993: Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Miocene Saxonian amber. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 35(3): 603-656.
• Szadziewski, R. & Sonntag, E., 2013: A new species of Forcipomyia from Paleocene Sakhalin amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Polish Journal of Entomology, 82 (1): 59-62, doi:10.2478/v10200-012-0023-x
• Yu, Y. et al. 2005: Ceratopogonidae of China: Insecta, Diptera. Volume I. Military Medical Science Press, Beijing.
• Yu, Y.-x.; Song, F.-C. 2008: A new subgenus, two new species of Forcipomyia from China (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Acta zootaxonomica sinica, 33(4): 793-795.

External links

• Data related to Forcipomyia at Wikispecies