Genus Ceratopogon (Noun)
Meaning
Type genus of the Ceratopogonidae.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Ceratopogon is a genus of biting midges in the family Ceratopogonidae.
- The type genus Ceratopogon was described by Johann Wilhelm Meigen in 1803.
- For purposes of diagnosis and species delimitation the subgenera within Ceratopogon can be examined as morphologically discrete groups.
- As type genus of the Ceratopogonidae it serves as the nominate subgenus within its genus and it consists of three Palearctic and 29 Oriental and eastern Palearctic species.
- Subfamily Forcipomyiinae shares apomorphic larval mouthparts resembling genus Ceratopogon more than its nominal allies in Dasyheleinae and subfamily Forcipomyiinae both considered having primitively patterned females as likely indicating them the basalmost diverging ceratopogonids