WoRMS taxon details
Culicoides melleus (Coquillett, 1901)
AphiaID: 494567
AphiaID: 494567
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Hexapoda (Subphylum) > Insecta (Class) > Pterygota (Subclass) > Diptera (Order) > Nematocera (Suborder) > Culicomorpha (Infraorder) > Ceratopogonidae (Family) > Ceratopogoninae (Subfamily) > Culicoides (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Culicoides Latreille, 1809 | ||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Cheng, L. (Ed.) (1976). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-11213-8. XII, 581 pp., available online at http://repositories.cdlib.org/sio/techreport/48/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, terrestrial | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States and in the Bahamas, Culicoides melleus larvae are found in the intertidal zone on sheltered beaches. They are confined to sand in the intertidal zone. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:494567 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cheng, L. (2013). Culicoides melleus (Coquillett, 1901). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=494567 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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