IRMNG - Forcipomyia Meigen, 1818

Meigen, J.W. (1818). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Erster Theil. F.W. Forstmann, Aachen. xxxvi+333 pp.
page(s): 73, 75; note: Available under art. 11.6.1 [details]

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IRMNG (2021). Forcipomyia Meigen, 1818. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1013505 on 2025-01-31

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original description Meigen, J.W. (1818). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Erster Theil. F.W. Forstmann, Aachen. xxxvi+333 pp.
page(s): 73, 75; note: Available under art. 11.6.1 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

basis of record Brands, S. J. (compiler). (1989-2005). Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Originally available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/; for current information, refer http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/ProjectDescription.aspx . [details]

current name source Borkent, A. & Dominiak, P. (2020). Catalog of the Biting Midges of the World (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa. 4787(1): 1-377., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4787.1.1 [details]

extant flag source Brands, S. J. (compiler). (1989-2005). Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Originally available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/; for current information, refer http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/ProjectDescription.aspx . [details]

habitat flag source as per family [details]

original description (of Didymophleps Weyenbergh, 1883) Weyenbergh, H. (1883). Die gattung Didymophleps m. Entomologische Zeitung , Stettin. 44: 108-111., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8999361 [details]

original description (of Parapterobosca Harant, Huttel & Huttel, 1951) Harant, H., Huttel, W. & Huttel, N. (1951). Parapterobosca anthropophila nov. gen., n. sp. cératopogonide de la Côte d'Ivoire vulnérant pour l'homme. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 26(5-6): 468-472., available online at https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/1951265468
page(s): 468 [details]

original description (of Euprojoannisia Brèthes, 1914) Brèthes, J. (1914). Descripcion de six Cécidomyidae (Dipt.) de Buenos Aires. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires. 26: 151-156. [1915]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14613893
page(s): 155 [details]

original description (of Euforcipomyia Malloch, 1915) Malloch, J.R. (1915). Some additional records of Chironomidae for Illinois and notes on other Illinois Diptera. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. 11(4): 305-363., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4472909
page(s): 312 [details]

original description (of Lasiohelea Kieffer, 1921) Kieffer, J.J. (1921). Sur quelques Diptères piqueurs de la tribu des Ceratopogoninae. Archives des Instituts Pasteur de l'Afrique du Nord. 1: 107-115., available online at https://books.google.co.cr/books?id=f4hMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA107
page(s): 115 [details]

original description (of Pterobosca Macfie, 1932) Macfie, J.W.S. (1932). Ceratopogonidae from the wings of dragonflies. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 75: 265-283., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28150279
page(s): 266 [details]

original description (of Pedilohelea de Meillon & Wirth, 1980) De Meillon, B. & Wirth, W.W. (1980). A new subgenus of Forcipomyia, with descriptions of eight new species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 82(1): 9-24., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/56104
page(s): 9 [details]

original description (of Rhynchoforcipomyia Wirth & Dow, 1972) Wirth, W.W. & Dow, M.I. (1972). Studies on the Genus Forcipomyia 4. Rhynchoforcipomyia, a New Neotropical Subgenus in the Trichohelea Complex (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 65(4): 862-872., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/65.4.862
page(s): 863 [details]

original description (of Labidomyia Stephens, 1829) Stephens, J.F. (1829). The nomenclature of British insects. Baldwin and Cradock, London. 68 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/110543
page(s): 52 [details]

original description (of Forcipohelea Clastrier & Delecolle, 1991) Clastrier, J. & Delécolle, J.-C. (1991). Diptera Ceratopogonidae de Nouvelle-Calédonie. 8. genre Forcipomyia. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Série A, Zoologie. 149: 177-213., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58018326
page(s): 195 [details]

original description (of Schizoforcipomyia Chan & LeRoux, 1971) Chan, K.L. & LeRoux, E.J. (1971). A new subgenus and species of midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Singapore. The Canadian Entomologist. 103(2): 271-276., available online at https://doi.org/10.4039/ent103271-2
page(s): 271 [details]

original description (of Caloforcipomyia Saunders, 1957) Saunders, L. G. (1957). Revision of the genus Forcipomyia based on characters of all stages (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 34(6): 657-705 [1956]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z56-065
page(s): 680 [details]

original description (of Synthyridomyia Saunders, 1956) Saunders, L. G. (1957). Revision of the genus Forcipomyia based on characters of all stages (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 34(6): 657-705 [1956]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z56-065
page(s): 688 [details]

original description (of Saliohelea Wirth & Ratanaworabhan, 1978) Wirth, W.W. & Ratanaworabhan, N.C. (1978). Studies on the genus Forcipomyia. V. Key to subgenera and description of a new subgenus related to Euprojoannisia Brethes (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 80(4): 493-507., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16381596
page(s): 494 [details]

original description (of Kattangomyia Debenham, 1987) Debenham, M. (1987). The biting midge genus Forcipomyia (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) in the Australasian region (Exclusive of New Zealand). I. Introduction, key to subgenera, and the Thyridomyia and Trichohelea groups of subgenera. Invertebrate Systematics. 1(1): 35-119., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/it9870035
page(s): 98 [details]

original description (of Amberaspinus Evenhuis, 1994 †) Evenhuis, N.L. (1994). Catalogue of the fossil flies of the world. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 660 pp. ISBN 90-73348-28-5., available online at http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fossilcat/
page(s): 260 [details]

original description (of Nicothohelea Liu, Tang & Hao, 2002) Liu, J.-H., Tang, B.-H. & Hao, B.-S. (2002). 中国铗蠓属一新亚属、一新种及亚属检索表 [A new subgenus, a new species and a key to subgenera of genus Forcipomyia]. Acta Parasitologica et Medica Entomologica Sinica. 9(4): 230-235., available online at https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1005-0507.2002.04.007
page(s): 230 [details]

original description (of Dacnoforcipomyia Chan & Saunders, 1965) Chan, K.L. & Saunders, L.G. (1965). Chan, K.L. & Saunders, L.g. (1965) Forcipomyia (Dacnoforcipomyia) anabaenae, a new blood-sucking midge from Singapore, described in all stages (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 43(3): 527-540., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z65-052
page(s): 527 [details]

original description (of Proforcipomyia Saunders, 1956) Saunders, L. G. (1957). Revision of the genus Forcipomyia based on characters of all stages (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 34(6): 657-705 [1956]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z56-065
page(s): 662 [details]

original description (of Warmkea Saunders, 1956) Saunders, L. G. (1957). Revision of the genus Forcipomyia based on characters of all stages (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 34(6): 657-705 [1956]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z56-065
page(s): 671 [details]

original description (of Neoforcipomyia Tokunaga, 1959) Tokunaga, M. & Murachi, E.K. (1959). Diptera: Ceratopogonidae. Insects of Micronesia. 12(3): 103-434., available online at http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/iom12-3.pdf
page(s): 200 [details]

original description (of Apelma Kieffer, 1917) Kieffer, J.J. (1918). Chironomides d'Afrique et d'Asie conservés au Museum National Hongrois de Budapest. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 16: 31-136., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56568117
page(s): 64 [details]

original description (of Thyridomyia Saunders, 1925) Saunders, L.G. (1925). On the Life History, Morphology and Systematic Position of Apelma Kieff. and Thyridomyia n.g. (Diptera, Nemat. Ceratopogoninae). Parasitology. 17(3): 252-277., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000004704
page(s): 268 [details]

original description (of Typhonomyia Debenham, 1987) Debenham, M. (1987). The biting midge genus Forcipomyia (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) in the Australasian region (Exclusive of New Zealand). I. Introduction, key to subgenera, and the Thyridomyia and Trichohelea groups of subgenera. Invertebrate Systematics. 1(1): 35-119., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/it9870035
page(s): 93 [details]

original description (of Phasmidohelea Mayer, 1937) Mayer, K. (1937). Beobachtungen über blutsaugende Ceratopogoniden. Arbeiten über morphologische und taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem. 4: 231-234., available online at http://sdei.senckenberg.de/~openaccess/01908.pdf
page(s): 233 [details]

original description (of Metaforcipomyia Saunders, 1956) Saunders, L. G. (1957). Revision of the genus Forcipomyia based on characters of all stages (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 34(6): 657-705 [1956]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z56-065
page(s): 685 [details]

original description (of Bassoforcipomyia Debenham, 1987) Debenham, M. (1987). The biting midge genus Forcipomyia (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) in the Australasian region (exclusive of New Zealand). II. Warmkea and the Caloforcipomyia group of subgenera. Invertebrate Systematics. 1(2): 167-199., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/it9870167
page(s): 172 [details]

original description (of Collessohelea Debenham, 1987) Debenham, M. (1987). The biting midge genus Forcipomyia (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) in the Australasian region (Exclusive of New Zealand). I. Introduction, key to subgenera, and the Thyridomyia and Trichohelea groups of subgenera. Invertebrate Systematics. 1(1): 35-119., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/it9870035
page(s): 60 [details]

original description (of Herakleohelea Debenham, 1987) Debenham, M. (1987). The biting midge genus Forcipomyia (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) in the Australasian region (Exclusive of New Zealand). I. Introduction, key to subgenera, and the Thyridomyia and Trichohelea groups of subgenera. Invertebrate Systematics. 1(1): 35-119., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/it9870035
page(s): 97 [details]

original description (of Atopomyia Yu & Liu, 2000) Yu, Y.-X. & Liu, J.-H. (2000). [A new subgenus and two new species of Forcipomyia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from China]. Entomotaxonomia. 22(1): 48-52 [in Chinese].
page(s): 48 [details]

original description (of Lepidohelea Kieffer, 1917) Kieffer, J.J. (1917). Chironomides d'Amérique conservés au Musée National Hongrois de Budapest. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 15: 292-364., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56596659
page(s): 364 [details]

original description (of Panhelea Remm, 1980) Remm, H. (1980). Новые виды мокрецов (Diptera , Ceratopogonidae) Средней Азии [New species of the family Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) from the Middle Asia]. Tartu Riikliku Ulikooli Toimetised. 516: 85-128., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10062/17981
page(s): 117 [details]

original description (of Tetraphora Philippi, 1865) Philippi, R.A. (1865). Aufzählung der chilenischen Dipteren. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 15(Abh.): 595-782., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16401036
page(s): 630 [details]

original description (of Prohelea Kieffer, 1911) Kieffer, J.J. (1911). Les chironomides de (Tendipedidae) de l'Himalaya et d'Assam. Records of the Indian Museum. 6(5): 319-349.
page(s): 1 [details]

original description (of Aspinus Hong, 1981) Hong, Y.-C. (1981). 琥珀中的昆虫化石 [Eocene fossil Diptera in amber of Fushun coalfield]. Publishing House, Peking. 166 pp.
page(s): 52 [details]

original description (of Dycea Debenham, 1987) Debenham, M. (1987). The biting midge genus Forcipomyia (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) in the Australasian region (exclusive of New Zealand). IV. The subgenera allied to Forcipomyia, s.s., and Lepidohelea, and the interrelationships and biogeography of the subgenera of Forcipomyi. Invertebrate Systematics. 1(6): 631-684., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/it9870631
page(s): 666 [details]

original description (of Blantonia Wirth & Dow, 1971) Wirth, W.W. & Dow, M.I. (1971). Studies on the Genus Forcipomyia III. Blantonia, a New Subgenus in the Trichohelea Complex (Diptera: Ceratopogondae). The Florida Entomologist. 54(4): 289-295., available online at https://journals.flvc.org/flaent/article/view/56658 [details]

original description (of Centrorhynchus Lutz, 1913) Lutz, A. (1913). Contribuição para o estudo das Ceratopogoninas hematofagas do Brazil. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 5(1): 45-73., available online at https://doi.org/10.1590/s0074-02761913000100005
page(s): 62 [details]

original description (of Labidomyia Agassiz, 1846) Agassiz, L. (1846). Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis. Jent & Gassman. viii + 393 pp. [1847]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33664307
page(s): 156; note: Contrary to Neave's interpretation, Agassiz is citing Labidomyia Stephens as the emendation to be used,not making an emendation of his own. [details]

original description (of Microhelea Kieffer, 1917) Kieffer, J.J. (1917). Chironomides d'Amérique conservés au Musée National Hongrois de Budapest. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 15: 292-364., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56596659
page(s): 364 [details]

original description (of Cryptoscena Enderlein, 1936) Enderlein, G. (1936). 22. Ordnung: Zweiflügler, Diptera. Abt. 16, pp. 1–259 [= Lfg. 2, in part]. In: Brohmer, P., Erhmann, P. & Ulmer, G., eds., Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas. Vol. 6: Insekten. III. Teil. Leipzig.
page(s): 51 [details]

original description (of Schineromyia Debenham, 1987) Debenham, M. (1987). The biting midge genus Forcipomyia (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) in the Australasian region (Exclusive of New Zealand). I. Introduction, key to subgenera, and the Thyridomyia and Trichohelea groups of subgenera. Invertebrate Systematics. 1(1): 35-119., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/it9870035
page(s): 67 [details]

original description (of Trichohelea Goetghebuer, 1920) Goetghebuer, M. (1920). Ceratopogoninae de Belgique. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 8(3): 1-116., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42372753
page(s): 39 [details]

original description (of Baliohelea Yu & Liu, 2005) Yu, Y.-X., Liu, J.-H., Liu, G.-P., Liu, Z.-J., Hao, B.-S., Yan, G. & Zhao, T.-S. (2005). 中国蠓科昆虫. 昆虫纲, 双翅目 [Ceratopogonidae of China, Insecta, Diptera]. Military Medical Science Press, Beijing. 2 vols, 1699 pp. ISBN 7-80121-687-3.
page(s): 476 [details]

original description (of Gampsohelea Yu & Liu, 2005) Yu, Y.-X., Liu, J.-H., Liu, G.-P., Liu, Z.-J., Hao, B.-S., Yan, G. & Zhao, T.-S. (2005). 中国蠓科昆虫. 昆虫纲, 双翅目 [Ceratopogonidae of China, Insecta, Diptera]. Military Medical Science Press, Beijing. 2 vols, 1699 pp. ISBN 7-80121-687-3.
page(s): 584 [details]

original description (of Ixodehelea Yu & Liu, 2005) Yu, Y.-X., Liu, J.-H., Liu, G.-P., Liu, Z.-J., Hao, B.-S., Yan, G. & Zhao, T.-S. (2005). 中国蠓科昆虫. 昆虫纲, 双翅目 [Ceratopogonidae of China, Insecta, Diptera]. Military Medical Science Press, Beijing. 2 vols, 1699 pp. ISBN 7-80121-687-3.
page(s): 586 [details]

original description (of Japygahelea Yu & Liu, 2005) Yu, Y.-X., Liu, J.-H., Liu, G.-P., Liu, Z.-J., Hao, B.-S., Yan, G. & Zhao, T.-S. (2005). 中国蠓科昆虫. 昆虫纲, 双翅目 [Ceratopogonidae of China, Insecta, Diptera]. Military Medical Science Press, Beijing. 2 vols, 1699 pp. ISBN 7-80121-687-3.
page(s): 588 [details]

original description (of Rhinohelea de Meillon & Wirth, 1979) De Meillon, B. & Wirth, W.W. (1979). Subsaharan Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) IV. Rhinohelea, a new subgenus of Forcipomyia from the south-west Cape Province, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum. 23(3): 881-886.
page(s): 881 [details]

original description (of Nicothoehelea Yu & Liu, 2005) Yu, Y.-X., Liu, J.-H., Liu, G.-P., Liu, Z.-J., Hao, B.-S., Yan, G. & Zhao, T.-S. (2005). 中国蠓科昆虫. 昆虫纲, 双翅目 [Ceratopogonidae of China, Insecta, Diptera]. Military Medical Science Press, Beijing. 2 vols, 1699 pp. ISBN 7-80121-687-3.
page(s): 633 [details]

original description (of Oreinohelea Yu & Liu, 2005) Yu, Y.-X., Liu, J.-H., Liu, G.-P., Liu, Z.-J., Hao, B.-S., Yan, G. & Zhao, T.-S. (2005). 中国蠓科昆虫. 昆虫纲, 双翅目 [Ceratopogonidae of China, Insecta, Diptera]. Military Medical Science Press, Beijing. 2 vols, 1699 pp. ISBN 7-80121-687-3.
page(s): 635 [details]

original description (of Oxyria Yu, 2005) Yu, Y.-X., Liu, J.-H., Liu, G.-P., Liu, Z.-J., Hao, B.-S., Yan, G. & Zhao, T.-S. (2005). 中国蠓科昆虫. 昆虫纲, 双翅目 [Ceratopogonidae of China, Insecta, Diptera]. Military Medical Science Press, Beijing. 2 vols, 1699 pp. ISBN 7-80121-687-3.
page(s): 1436 [details]

original description (of Trithicomyia Yu & Song, 2008) Yu, Y.-X. & Song, F-C. (2008). 我国铗蠓属一新亚属及二新种(双翅目,蠓科) [A new subgenus, two new species of Forcipomyia from China (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae)]. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 33(4): 793-795.
page(s): 793 [details]

original description (of Sinicohelea Yu, Wang & Tan, 2012) Wang, C.-C., Tan, R.-Q., Chen, S.-H., & Yu, Y.-X. (2012). [Sinicohelea, a new ginus [sic] of biting midges of the subfamily Ceratopogoninae (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Hainan Province]. China. Acta Parasitologica et Medica Entomologica Sinica. 19: 42-45 [in Chinese]. [details]

original description (of Pterobosca Macfie, 1940) Macfie, J. W. S. (1940). The Genera of Ceratopogonidae. Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology. 34(1): 13-30., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00034983.1940.11685079
page(s): 16 [details]

original description (of Atopopogon Borkent, Dominiak & Díaz, 2022) Borkent, A.; Dominiak, P.; Díaz, F. (2022). An Update and Errata for the Catalog of the Biting Midges of the World (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa. 5120(1): 53-64., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5120.1.3 [details]

original description (of Phytohelea Remm, 1971) Remm, H. (1971). [On the fauna of Ceratopogonidae of South Primorye (Ussuri Land)] pp. 182-220 in: Living Nature of the Far East. Akademiia nauk Estonskoi SSR.
page(s): 189 [details]