Platysmittia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Subclass: | Pterygota |
Order: | Diptera |
Suborder: | Nematocera |
Infraorder: | Culicomorpha |
Superfamily: | Chironomoidea |
Family: | Chironomidae |
Subfamily: | Orthocladiinae |
Genus: | Platysmittia Saether, 1982 |
Type species | |
P. fimbriata Saether, 1982 |
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Species | |
See text |
Platysmittia is a genus of midges in the non-biting midge family (Chironomidae).
Only two species are known. P. fimbriata is recorded from Tennessee and North Carolina. P. bilyji is known from Pennsylvania and Maryland,[1]
Larvae of the two species can be told apart by the longer 4th antennal segment in P. bilyji.[1]