Deuterophlebia

The fly genus Deuterophlebia is the sole member of the small monogeneric family Deuterophlebiidae or mountain midges. 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.

Deuterophlebia mirabilis

Deuterophlebia
Deuterophlebia mirabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Suborder: Nematocera
Infraorder: Deuterophlebiomorpha
Family: Deuterophlebiidae
Edwards, 1922
Genus: Deuterophlebia
Edwards, 1922[1]
Species

Some 12–15

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]

References
  1. "Deuterophlebia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. 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. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00574.x.
  3. Walter Hackman & Rauno Väisänen (1982). "Different classification systems in the Diptera" (PDF). Annales Zoologici Fennici. 19: 209–219.
  4. 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.

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