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Definition of Ceratopogon
1. Noun. Type genus of the Ceratopogonidae.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Ceratopogonidae, Family Ceratopogonidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceratopogon
Literary usage of Ceratopogon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"Ceratopogon, Culicoides, Lat. Where the antennae are simply furnished with a
bundle of hairs at base. Their proboscis, as in the two following subgenera, ..."
2. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1904)
"BY DW COQUILLETT, WASHINGTON, DC Ceratopogon guttatus, new species. Black, the
antenna and apical portion of tarsi brownish yellow, mesonotum yellowish ..."
3. Illustrations of British Blood-sucking Flies by Ernest Edward Austen (1906)
"Ceratopogon pulicaris, Linn. Plate i, fig. 2. In certain localities in England
in the latter part of April and beginning of May, 1904, ..."
4. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1899)
"Chironomus does not possess, as Ceratopogon does, piercing mouthparts. Dytiscus,
pinned or in alcohol, in exchange for Italian insects of any order. ..."
5. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Entomological Section (1890)
"The pattern of venation is apparently a modification of that of a Ceratopogon,
in which the third vein coalesces with the first and the fourth vein is ..."
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