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taste for cantaridin - Atrichopogon sp.?
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 Some Ceratopogonidae suck blood from meloid beetles. This Meloe violaceus was severe damaged after my dog stepped on it on a forest path. In minutes small midges appeared and started to pierce the beetle, some through its sick pronotum. Is Atrichopogon a good ID?
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very general entomologist
 
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 Yes, Atrichopogon is the right genus. The subgenus will be Meloehelea.
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