Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Ceratopogonidae biting a frog

Posted by orionmystery on 21-11-2011 14:38
#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)
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Edited by orionmystery on 21-11-2011 17:58

Posted by Paul Beuk on 21-11-2011 14:53
#2
Ceratopogonidae

Posted by orionmystery on 21-11-2011 15:17
#3
Thanks for the ID Paul!

Posted by John Carr on 21-11-2011 17:09
#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 17:09

Posted by orionmystery on 21-11-2011 17:20
#5
Thank you John. I have a 100% crop here:

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Posted by John Carr on 21-11-2011 17:34
#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 (suCoolgenera 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.