The Culicoidini is a tribe of biting midges.[1]
Culicoidini | |
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Culicoides sonorensis after blood meal | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Ceratopogonidae |
Subfamily: | Ceratopogoninae |
Tribe: | Culicoidini |
Genera | |
Several, see text |
Genera include:
It is not quite clear which taxa should be considered full genera, and which ones mere subgenera and included in Culicoides.