Blephariceridae
Blephariceridae | |
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Blepharicera fasciata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Infraorder: | Psychodomorpha |
Family: | Blephariceridae Loew, 1862 |
Subfamilies | |
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The Blephariceridae, commonly known as net-winged midges, are a nematoceran family in the order Diptera. The adults resemble crane flies except with a projecting anal angle in the wings, and different head shape, absence of the V on the mesonotum, and more laterally outstretched, forward-facing legs. They are uncommon, but dozens of genera occur worldwide, and over 200 species.
They are found near fast-flowing streams where the larvae live. Blepharicerid larvae are filter feeders and have suckers on their abdominal sternites, used to adhere to rocks in the torrents in which they live. These suckers are sometimes called . These are of unique evolutionary origin within the Diptera.
One recent classification based largely on fossils treats this family as the sole member of its infraorder, but this has not gained wide acceptance.
Selected Genera and Species[]
- Subfamily
- Tribe
- Agathon Rodor, 1890
- (Alexander, 1958)
- (Garrett, 1923)
- Agathon comstocki (Kellogg, 1903)
- (Hogue, 1970)
- (Kellogg, 1900)
- Roder, 1890
- (Garrett, 1925)
- (Alexander, 1952)
- Bibiocephala
- Bibiocephala grandis Osten Sacken, 1874
- Macquart, 1843
- Hogue and Georgian, 1986
- (Loew, 1863)
- Hogue, 1978
- Hogue and Georgian, 1985
- Hogue, 1978
- (Kellogg, 1903)
- (Alexander, 1959)
- Kellogg, 1903
- (Johannsen, 1929)
- (Walker, 1848)
- (Alexander, 1953)
- (Alexander, 1953)
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- Hogue, 1966
- Hogue, 1966
- Alexander, 1963
- (Osten Sacken, 1877)
- Agathon Rodor, 1890
- Tribe
- Subfamily
- Edwardsina
- Edwardsina gigantea Zwick, 1977
- Edwardsina tasmaniensis Tonnoir, 1924
- Edwardsina
Extinct genera[]
- † Lukashevich et al. 2006 Daohugou, China, Callovian
- † Zhang and Lukashevich 2007 Daohugou, China, Callovian
- † Lukashevich and Shcherbakov 1997 Daohugou, China, Callovian, , Russia, Campanian
- † Cockerell 1908 Green River Formation, Colorado, Eocene
- † Hong and Wang 1990 , China, Aptian
References[]
Loew H. 1862. Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part 1. Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection 6(1): 1-221, fig. 1-3+1-12, 2 pls.
External links[]
Wikispecies has information related to Blephariceridae. |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blephariceridae. |
- Tree of Life Blephariceromorpha
- Iowa State University Biology, Classification, Keys (introductory figure).
- Video of a Blepharicerid larva
- Blephariceridae
- Nematocera families
- Taxa named by Hermann Loew
- Blephariceromorpha stubs