family Ceratopogonidae

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family Ceratopogonidae - biting midges; sand flies

arthropod family - any of the arthropods

Nematocera, suborder Nematocera - mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies

biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punkie, punky - minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects

Ceratopogon, genus Ceratopogon - type genus of the Ceratopogonidae

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For activities associated with water or located near specified lakes or marshes on the Bellarine Peninsula, and for exposure to mosquitoes (Family Culicidae), March flies (Family Tabanidae), and sandflies (Family Ceratopogonidae), the responses were subdivided according to season (summer, autumn, winter, and spring).

Risk factors for Mycobacterium ulcerans infection, Southeastern Australia

Forcipomyia Meigen, a worldwide genus, is one of the most species-rich in the family Ceratopogonidae, with many species being important pollinators of tropical and subtropical cultivated plants (Winder 1977, Young 1986, Martinez et al.

Biting midges of the Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) argenteola group in southern South America, with description of a new species and a key to the Neotropical species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)