Keywords
Biting-midges
Brazil
Ectoparasitism
Opiliones
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Abstract
We collected the species Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) opilionivora (Lane, 1947) (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) in Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, after 75 years from the original description. The specimen was biting the femur I of a harvestman, and it was later removed with difficulty. The host specimen is a female of Holcobunus nigripalpis Roewer, 1910 (Sclerosomatidae, Gagrellinae). Previous records of ectoparasitism of Ceratopogonidae in harvestmen were all related to Sclerosomatidae, but the biology of those ectoparasitic species still has much to explore.
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