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

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

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