Deuterophlebia, also known as mountain midges are a genus of flies that are the sole living members of the small family Deuterophlebiidae. Adults have broad, fan-shaped wings, and males have extremely long antennae which they employ when contesting territories over running water, waiting for females to hatch.[2] Larvae occur in swiftly flowing streams and are easily recognized by their forked antennae and the prolegs on the abdomen.
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| Deuterophlebia mirabilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Suborder: | Nematocera |
| Infraorder: | Deuterophlebiomorpha |
| Family: | Deuterophlebiidae Edwards, 1922 |
| Genus: | Deuterophlebia Edwards, 1922[1] |
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One classification places this family in its own infraorder Deuterophlebiomorpha, but this has not gained wide acceptance.[3] A recent phylogeny of the entire order Diptera places them as the sister group to all other flies.[4]
Fossil members of the family are known from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar, dating to around 100 million years ago.[5]
Species
editSpecies of the genus are known from Afghanistan, Kashmir, Northeast India, China, Japan, Korea, Eastern Siberia, and western North America from Alaska to California to Colorado.[5]
Catalogue of Life accepts the following species within Deuterophlebia:[6]
- Deuterophlebia bicarinata Courtney, 1994
- Deuterophlebia blepharis Courtney, 1994
- Deuterophlebia brachyrhina Courtney, 1994
- Deuterophlebia coloradensis Pennak, 1945
- Deuterophlebia inyoensis Kennedy, 1960
- Deuterophlebia mirabilis Edwards, 1922
- Deuterophlebia nielsoni Kennedy, 1958
- Deuterophlebia nipponica Kitakami, 1938
- Deuterophlebia oporina Courtney, 1994
- Deuterophlebia personata Courtney, 1990
- Deuterophlebia sajanica Jedlička & Halgoš, 1981
- Deuterophlebia shasta Wirth, 1951
- Deuterophlebia tyosenensis Kitakami, 1938
- Deuterophlebia vernalis Courtney, 1990
References
edit- ^ "Deuterophlebia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, Haichun Zhang & Bo Wang (2006). "Bizarre fossil insects: web-spinning sawflies of the genus Ferganolyda (Vespida, Pamphilioidea) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China". Palaeontology. 49 (4): 907–916. Bibcode:2006Palgy..49..907R. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00574.x.
- ^ Walter Hackman & Rauno Väisänen (1982). "Different classification systems in the Diptera" (PDF). Annales Zoologici Fennici. 19: 209–219.
- ^ Wiegmann, B.; et al. (2011). "Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (14): 5690–5. Bibcode:2011PNAS..108.5690W. doi:10.1073/pnas.1012675108. PMC 3078341. PMID 21402926.
- ^ a b Krzemińska, Ewa; Soszyńska, Agnieszka; Kania-Kłosok, Iwona; Skibińska, Kornelia; Kopeć, Katarzyna; van de Kamp, Thomas; Zhang, Qingqing; Krzemiński, Wiesław (2024-10-22). "First fossil mountain midges (Diptera, Deuterophlebiidae) and their evolutionary and ecological implication". Scientific Reports. 14 (1): 24864. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-75389-y. ISSN 2045-2322.
- ^ "Deuterophlebia | COL". www.catalogueoflife.org. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
Further reading
edit- G. W. Courtney (1990). "Revision of Nearctic mountain midges (Diptera: Deuterophlebiidae)". Journal of Natural History. 24 (1): 81–118. Bibcode:1990JNatH..24...81C. doi:10.1080/00222939000770071.
- G. W. Courtney (1994). "Revision of Palaearctic mountain midges (Diptera: Deuterophlebiidae), with phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of world species". Systematic Entomology. 19 (1): 1–24. Bibcode:1994SysEn..19....1C. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1994.tb00576.x. S2CID 84424117.
External links
edit- Photograph of larva Archived 2010-11-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Tree of Life Blephariceromorpha
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