See text Forcipomyia is a genus of biting midges in the subfamily Forcipomyiinae.

Species of the subgenus Lasiohelea suck vertebrate blood.

[2][3][4][5] It is often repeated that a species of Forcipomyia has the highest recorded wing-beat frequency at 1046 Hz, citing a paper by Finnish entomologist Olavi Sotavalta published in 1953.

[11] Sotavalta was able to induce a wing-beat frequency as high as 2218 Hz by clipping the midge's wings close to the base and heating it to 37° C, shortly after which the midge died.

[12] This article related to members of the fly superfamily Chironomoidea is a stub.