Biology:Clinohelea

Short description: Genus of flies

Clinohelea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Ceratopogonidae
Subfamily:	Ceratopogoninae
Tribe:	Heteromyiini
Genus:	Clinohelea Kieffer, 1917

Clinohelea is a genus of biting midges in the family Ceratopogonidae. There are at least 40 described species in Clinohelea.

Species

These 43 species belong to the genus Clinohelea:

• Clinohelea albopennis Lane, 1944 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea argentina Lane & Duret, 1954 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea barrettoi Lane & Duret, 1954 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea bimaculata (Loew, 1861) ^{i c g b}
• Clinohelea bisignata (Kieffer, 1910) ^c
• Clinohelea curriei (Coquillett, 1905) ^{i c g} (=C. currei ^b)
• Clinohelea damascenoi Lane & Duret, 1954 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea dimidiata (Adams, 1903) ^{i c g}
• Clinohelea dryas Debenham, 1974 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea fallax Kieffer, 1917 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea flagellata (Edwards, 1916) ^{c g}
• Clinohelea fuscoalata Remm, 1993 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea hollandiae Tokunaga, 1966 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea horacioi Lane, 1944 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea hygropetrica Clastrier, 1983 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea insperata Meillon & Wirth, 1981 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea lacustris Macfie, 1939 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea longipalpis Kieffer, 1918 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea longitheca Grogan and Wirth, 1975 ^{i c g}
• Clinohelea muzoni Spinelli & Duret, 1993 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea neivai Lane, 1944 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea nigeriae Ingram & Macfie, 1923 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea nigripes Macfie, 1939 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea nubifera (Coquillett, 1905) ^{i c g}
• Clinohelea pachydactyla Kieffer, 1918 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea papuensis Tokunaga, 1966 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea podagrica Goetghebuer, 1948 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea pseudonubifera Grogan and Wirth, 1975 ^{i c g}
• Clinohelea reperticia Yu & Zhang, 1996 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea rubriceps Kieffer, 1917 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea saltanensis Lane & Duret, 1954 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea tasmaniensis Lee, 1948 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea tenuipes Tokunaga, 1966 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea tenuissima (Kieffer, 1917) ^{c g}
• Clinohelea townesi Lane, 1944 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea townsendi Lane, 1944 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea trimaculata Clastrier, 1983 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea unimaculata (Macquart, 1826) ^{c g}
• Clinohelea usheri Meillon, 1959 ^{c g}
• Clinohelea usingeri Wirth, 1952 ^{i c g}
• Clinohelea variegatus (Winnertz) ⁱ
• Clinohelea wygodzinskyi Lane, 1948 ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Borkent, A. (2012). World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) (Report). http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/files/8413/4219/9566/CeratopogonidaeCatalog.pdf. Retrieved 2018-05-01. 
• Borkent, Art; Grogan, W. L. Jr. (2009). "Catalog of the New World biting midges north of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)". Zootaxa 2273: 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2273.1.1. https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02273p048f.pdf. 
• Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. 1981. ISBN 978-0-660-10731-8. http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.817747/publication.html. 

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