Anarete johnsoni
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Cecidomyiidae
- Genus: Anarete
- Species: Anarete johnsoni
Visual Description
Anarete johnsoni is a small midge belonging to the family Cecidomyiidae. Based on examination of museum specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the species exhibits typical morphological characteristics of the genus Anarete.[1] The specimens are generally delicate in form, consistent with other members of the subfamily Lestremiinae.[2]
Biology and Distribution
Anarete johnsoni (Felt, 1908) is a member of the subfamily Lestremiinae, a group characterized by mycophagous larvae. The genus Anarete is distinguished by antennae with 6 to 7 flagellomeres, where the pedicel is more than 1.5 times the length of the scape, and the flagellomeres lack a neck and a crenulate whorl of setae.
The species has a broad distribution, known from the Nearctic (U.S.A.), Palearctic (including the UK, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Latvia, and Russia), and Australasian regions. It has also been recorded in Brazil (state of São Paulo), marking its presence in the Neotropical region. In the Neotropics, Anarete species appear to prefer open habitats.
Interactions recorded for A. johnsoni include visiting flowers of plants in the family Apiaceae.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Cecidomyiidae / Anarete / johnsoni constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Carlos José Einicker Lamas; Antonio Marcelino do Carmo-Neto; Maria Virgínia Urso-Guimarães. New South American records of the Lestremiinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), with an identification key to the Neotropical genera. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 2025. https://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2025.65.013.
- ↑ Anarete johnsoni. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Anarete%20johnsoni. Accessed 2026-07-14.