Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Ceratopogonidae biting a frog
Posted by orionmystery on 21-11-2011 15:38
#1
I was photographing this frog when I realized there were a couple of biting midges on the frog.
Sorry, the frog leaped away before I could zoom in on the midge.
Corethrellidae? (Edit: Ceratopogonidae)
Edited by orionmystery on 21-11-2011 18:58
Posted by Paul Beuk on 21-11-2011 15:53
#2
Ceratopogonidae
Posted by orionmystery on 21-11-2011 16:17
#3
Thanks for the ID Paul!
Posted by John Carr on 21-11-2011 18:09
#4
Likely
Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea). You have about 30 species in Malaysia. See:
Yu, Y.-X. and W.W. Wirth. 1997.
Lasiohelea of Southeast Asia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Military Medical Science Press, Beijing, China. xiv + 88 pp.
Edited by John Carr on 21-11-2011 18:09
Posted by orionmystery on 21-11-2011 18:20
#5
Thank you John. I have a 100% crop here:
Posted by John Carr on 21-11-2011 18:34
#6
What I see is consistent with
Lasiohelea (basal antenna segments short, second R cell long and narrow). As far as I know there are only three (sub)genera that suck vertebrate blood, and this does not look like
Culicoides or
Leptoconops. I have not seen the reference I listed and I don't know if species can be determined from a photo.