See text A midge is any small fly, including species in several families of non-mosquito nematoceran Diptera.

Midges are found (seasonally or otherwise) on practically every land area outside permanently arid deserts and the frigid zones.

Some of them spread the livestock diseases known as blue tongue and African horse sickness – other species though, are at least partly nectar feeders, and some even suck insect bodily fluids.

[9] There is, for example, no objective basis for excluding the Psychodidae from the list, and some of them (or midge-like taxa commonly included in the family, such as Phlebotomus) are blood-sucking pests and disease vectors.

[11] Non-biting midge flies are commonly considered a minor nuisance around bodies of water.

[12] Schröder, Oskar; Cavanaugh, Kirstin K.; Schneider, Julio V.; Schell, Tilman; Bonada, Núria; Seifert, Linda; Pauls, Steffen U.

"A new species of predaceous midge in the genus Stilobezzia Kieffer from Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)".

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