Culicoides niger Dzhafarov, 1960 Dataset GBIF Backbone Taxonomy Rank SPECIES Classification kingdom Animalia phylum Arthropoda class Insecta order Diptera family Ceratopogonidae genus Culicoides species Culicoides niger Name Homonyms Culicoides niger Dzhafarov, 1960 Culicoides niger Root & Hoffman, 1937