Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) present in aquatic macrophytes from wetlands of Marchantaria Island, Iranduba, Central Amazonia, Brazil Author Torreias, S. R. S. Laboratório de Citotaxonomia e Insetos Aquáticos, Coordenação de Biodiversidade - CBio, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, Manaus-Amazonas, Brazil; Author Ferreira-Keppler, R. L. Laboratório de Citotaxonomia e Insetos Aquáticos, Coordenação de Biodiversidade - CBio, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, Manaus-Amazonas, Brazil; Author Ronderos, M. M. División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, CCT-CONICET-CEPAVE, Buenos Aires, Argentina text Journal of Natural History 2013 2013-06-25 48 1 - 2 109 122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2013.791934 journal article 10.1080/00222933.2013.791934 1464-5262 5198735 Forcipomyia ( Euprojoannisia ) sp. Material examined Brazil , Amazonas , Iranduba , Ilha da Marchantaria , Lago Grande , S. auriculata , 17 May 2011 , Torreias col., 1 male (reared in laboratory, without pupal exuvia) ; 20 May 2011 , S. auriculata , Torreias and Ferreira-Keppler , 2 females (reared in laboratory, with pupal exuvia). Comments Forcipomyia is another cosmopolitan genus whose species are found in aquatic and semi-aquatic environments. The subgenus Euprojoannisia holds 17 valid species, five being recorded in Brazil ( Borkent and Spinelli 2007 ). The pupae were collected using flotation techniques associated with S. auriculata . Identification to species was not possible because of the bad condition of the emerged male.