| Deuterophlebia | |
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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 |
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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. Larvae occur in swiftly flowing streams and are easily recognized by their forked antennae and the prolegs on the abdomen.
One classification places this family in its own infraorder Deuterophlebiomorpha, but this has not gained wide acceptance. A recent phylogeny of the entire order Diptera places them as the sister group to all other flies.
Fossil members of the family are known from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar, dating to around 100 million years ago.
Species
Species 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.
Catalogue of Life accepts the following species within Deuterophlebia:
- 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
- "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.
- ^ 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. PMC 11496880.
- "Deuterophlebia | COL". www.catalogueoflife.org. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
Further reading
- 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
- Photograph of larva Archived 2010-11-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Tree of Life Blephariceromorpha
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