Sighting 4354303
Biting Midge at Cook, ACT
Identification history
| Ceratopogonidae (family) | 2 Nov 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Ceratopogonidae (family) | 2 Nov 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Unidentified | 31 Oct 2020 | CathB |
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User's notes
This tiny fly was perched on the back of the larger fly in sighting 4354301. It flew off when I accidentally disturbed it.
2 comments
KimPullen
wrote:
2 Nov 2020
Some Sand fly species are notorious for biting humans; others predate other small insects; yet others, like this one, are short-term parasites of other larger insects, sucking their body juices.
jgl
wrote:
3 Nov 2020
'Biting midge' is a less ambiguous term than 'sand fly'/'sandfly'' for ceratopogonids, as we have phlebotomine psychodids in northern Australia - use of the term 'sand fly' for ceratopognids is uncommon outsided the USA.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.074362-35.269552
- Maps Mount Painter
- Places Cook, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 28 Oct 2020 05:26 PM Recorded on
- CathB Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Crane flies, midges, mosquitoes & gnats (several families) True flies (Diptera) CathB Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Perched on Inopus rubriceps Associated Insect
- Less than 5mm Animal size
Species information
- Ceratopogonidae (family) Scientific name
- Biting Midge Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 749.3m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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