Ceratopogonidae

Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Madriz, Isaí, González, Christian R. & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2024, An update on the knowledge and general understanding of the Chilean Diptera diversity, Zootaxa 5518 (1), pp. 1-87 : 9

Ceratopogonidae ( Fig. 8 )

This family comprises 6,206 species, grouped into three subfamilies and 112 genera ( Borkent & Dominiak 2020). Several studies ( Ronderos & Spinelli 1993; Spinelli & Ronderos 2001; Marino & Spinelli 2001, 2003; Spinelli & Grogan 2001, 2003; Spinelli et al. 2010, 2013, 2015; Díaz et al. 2011; Cazorla & Spinelli 2012, 2014) contributed new faunistic records of biting midges and descriptions of new species for Chile. Currently, 63 species grouped into 17 genera are cited for Chile ( Borkent & Dominiak 2020).

Figures

FIGURES 8–13. Culicomorpha and Perissommatomorpha of Chile: (8) Forcipomyia sp. (Ceratopogonidae, Photo by Matías Gargiulo); (9) Chironomidae (photo by Matías Gargiulo); (10) Aedes (Ochlerotatus) albifasciatus (Macquart) (Culicidae, photo by Claudio Maureira); (11) Cnesia sp. (Simuliidae, photo by Claudio Maureira); (12) Gigantodax brophyi (Edwards) (Simuliidae, photo by Claudio Maureira), and (13) Perissoma cf. congrua (Perissommatidae, photo by Claudio Maureira).