Atrichopogon
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Ceratopogonidae
- Genus: Atrichopogon
Visual Description
Atrichopogon midges are small, delicate flies characteristic of the family Ceratopogonidae. Based on observations of museum specimens, they typically exhibit a slender body form with relatively long, thin legs and wings that are often held flat over the abdomen when at rest. The head is small with prominent, compound eyes. The wings are generally clear or lightly patterned, and the body coloration ranges from pale yellow or brown to darker shades, depending on the species.[1]
Biology and Ecology
The genus Atrichopogon is a diverse group of biting midges within the family Ceratopogonidae, comprising over 400 described species worldwide.[2] Adults have been collected from diverse habitats, including wet soil, rotten wood, mossy growths in tree holes, and near old open drains.
Diagnostic morphological features used for species identification include the antennal ratio (AR), costal ratio (CR), tarsal ratio (TR), proboscis to head index ratio (P/H), the shape of cuticular bristles, wing venation, the number of mandibular teeth, the structure of the hind tibial comb, the form of the empodium, and the shape of the spermatheca.
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Ceratopogonidae / Atrichopogon constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ M Bose; S. K. Dasgupta; Abhijit Mazumdar; P. K. Chaudhuri. Biting midges of the genus Atrichopogon Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from India. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 2003. https://doi.org/10.1163/22119434-900000126.