Biting Midge

Heteromyia sp.

Family: Ceratopogonidae
Order: Diptera
Class: Insecta
Phylum / Division: Arthropoda
Kingdom: Animalia

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Description

Heteromyia is a genus of biting midges in the family Ceratopogonidae. There are about 17 described species in Heteromyia.

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

Source: Wikipedia, article Heteromyia sp.. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 18/07/2026.