Culicoidini

Culicoidini
Culicoidini
Culicoides sonorensis after blood meal
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Ceratopogonidae
Subfamily: Ceratopogoninae
Tribe: Culicoidini
Genera

Several, see text

The Culicoidini is a tribe of biting midges (punkies, no-see-ums).

Genera include:

  • Austroconops
  • Culicoides
  • Neoculicoides
  • Paradasyhelea

It is not quite clear which taxa should be considered full genera, and which ones mere subgenera and included in Culicoides.