Deuterophlebia Explained

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.^[1] 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.^[2] A recent phylogeny of the entire order Diptera places them as the sister group to all other flies.^[3]

Species

Catalogue of Life accepts the following species within Deuterophlebia:^[4]

• 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

Further reading

• G. W. Courtney . 1990 . Revision of Nearctic mountain midges (Diptera: Deuterophlebiidae) . . 24 . 1 . 81–118 . 10.1080/00222939000770071. 1990JNatH..24...81C .
• G. W. Courtney . 1994 . Revision of Palaearctic mountain midges (Diptera: Deuterophlebiidae), with phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of world species . . 19 . 1 . 1–24 . 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1994.tb00576.x. 1994SysEn..19....1C . 84424117 .

External links

• Photograph of larva
• Tree of Life Blephariceromorpha

Notes and References

1. 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 . . 49 . 4 . 907–916 . 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00574.x . free . 2006Palgy..49..907R .
2. Walter Hackman & Rauno Väisänen . 1982 . Different classification systems in the Diptera . . 19 . 209–219 .
3. Wiegmann, B. . 2011 . Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life . . . 21402926 . 10.1073/pnas.1012675108 . 108 . 14 . 3078341 . 5690–5. 2011PNAS..108.5690W . etal. free .
4. Web site: Deuterophlebia COL . 2022-05-30 . www.catalogueoflife.org.