Deuterophlebiidae
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Deuterophlebiidae or mountain midges are a small monotypic family of nematoceran Diptera. 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[1]. Larvae occur in swiftly-flowing streams and are easily recognized by their forked antennae and the prolegs on the abdomen.
One recent classification[citation needed] places this family in its own infraorder Deuterophlebiomorpha, but this has not gained wide acceptance.
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- ^ Rasnitsyn et al. (2006)
[edit] References
- Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Zhang, Haichun & Wang, Bo (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. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00574.x PDF fulltext
- Courtney, G.W. (1990): Revision of Nearctic mountain midges (Diptera: Deuterophlebiidae). J. Nat. Hist. 24: 81-118. doi:10.1516/J485-4838-R147-4784 (HTML abstract)
- Courtney, G.W. (1994): Revision of Palaearctic mountain midges (Diptera: Deuterophlebiidae), with phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of world species. Systematic Entomology 19: 1-24.
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