Atrichopogon forcipatus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Ceratopogonidae
- Genus: Atrichopogon
- Species: Atrichopogon forcipatus
Description
Atrichopogon forcipatus is a species of biting midge in the family Ceratopogonidae. It was originally described by Winnertz in 1852 as Ceratopogon forcipatus.[2]
Ecology
Members of the genus Atrichopogon have been documented as part of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in stream environments.[3]
Visual Description
The available images from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset for Atrichopogon forcipatus are insufficient for detailed morphological observation.[1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Ceratopogonidae / Atrichopogon / forcipatus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Atrichopogon forcipatus (Winnertz, 1852). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1636980. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Dávid Murányi; Nikolett Tarjányi; Károly Schöll. First record of the genus Atrichops Verrall, 1909 in Hungary (Diptera: Athericidae). Mycorrhiza. 2009. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-009-0259-9.