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Ampelomyia viticola
Ampelomyia viticola, the grape tube gallmaker (formerly Cecidomyia viticola, Schizomyia viticola), is a North American gall midge forming tube-like leaf galls on Vitis grapes; moved to the genus Ampelomyia by Elsayed and Tokuda in 2019.
Cecidomyiidae
Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges or gall gnats, is a megadiverse family of Diptera with about 6,600 described species; most Cecidomyiinae larvae are herbivorous gall inducers, others fungivorous or predatory, with paedogenesis in some species.
Ceratopogonidae
Ceratopogonidae, the biting midges or no-see-ums, is a family of tiny bloodsucking flies with 6,206 extant species in 112 genera; Culicoides vectors bluetongue, African horse sickness, and Oropouche viruses.
Chironomidae
Chironomidae, non-biting midges or bloodworms, is a large Diptera fly family with ~7,500 species whose hemoglobin-rich aquatic larvae dominate freshwater benthos and serve as bioindicators and paleoclimate archives.
Chironomus
Chironomus, established in 1803, is a genus of non-biting midges whose blood-red, tube-dwelling larvae live in low-oxygen lake sediments and serve as water-quality indicators and toxicology test organisms.
Highland midge
Highland midge (Culicoides impunctatus, Gaelic Meanbh-chuileag), a 1.4 mm Palearctic biting midge causing up to 90% of human bites in Scotland; bivoltine, wind-limited, breeding in boggy acidic ground, a major nuisance to tourism and forestry.
Midge
Midges are small flies of several Diptera families: non-biting Chironomidae (lake flies, bloodworms), biting Ceratopogonidae (no-see-ums, Culicoides disease vectors), and gall midges; also cocoa pollinators and palaeoclimate indicators.
Orseolia oryzae
Orseolia oryzae, the Asian rice gall midge (Cecidomyiidae), a fly whose larvae induce silver-shoot galls in rice across tropical Asia; major pest with several Indian biotypes, Gm resistance genes, and Platygaster parasitoids.
Tanytarsus
Tanytarsus is a large genus of non-biting midges with about 355 species, whose larvae live in freshwater and whose remains in lake sediments are widely used to reconstruct past temperatures and oxygen conditions.