Deuterophlebiidae

__NOTOC__Taxobox
name = Deuterophlebiidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Nematocera
infraordo = Blephariceromorpha
familia = Deuterophlebiidae
genus = "Deuterophlebia"
genus_authority = Edwards, 1922
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = Some 12-15

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 [Rasnitsyn "et al." (2006)] . Larvae occur in swiftly-flowing streams and are easily recognized by their forked antennae and the prolegs on the abdomen.

One recent classificationFact|date=December 2007 places this family in its own infraorder Deuterophlebiomorpha, but this has not gained wide acceptance.

Footnotes

References

* (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 [http://fossilinsects.net/pdfs/Rasnitsyn_etal_2006_Bizarre.pdf PDF fulltext]

* (1990): Revision of Nearctic mountain midges (Diptera: Deuterophlebiidae). "J. Nat. Hist." 24: 81-118. doi|10.1516/J485-4838-R147-4784 (HTML abstract)
* (1994): Revision of Palaearctic mountain midges (Diptera: Deuterophlebiidae), with phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of world species. "Systematic Entomology" 19: 1-24.

External links

* [http://www.dfg.ca.gov/cabw/Lab/deuterophlebiidae.html Photograph of larva]
* [http://www.tolweb.org/Blephariceromorpha/10490 Tree of Life Blephariceromorpha]