The
fly genus ''Deuterophlebia'' is the sole member of the small
monogeneric
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family
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Deuterophlebiidae or mountain midges. Adults have broad, fan-shaped
wings
A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid. Accordingly, wings have streamlined cross-sections that are subject to aerodynamic forces and act as airfoils. A wing's aerodynamic efficiency is expre ...
, and males have extremely long antennae which they employ when contesting territories over running water, waiting for females to hatch. Larvae occur in swiftly flowing
streams and are easily recognized by their forked
antennae and the
proleg
A proleg is a small, fleshy, stub structure found on the ventral surface of the abdomen of most larval forms of insects of the order Lepidoptera, though they can also be found on other larval insects such as sawflies and a few other types of in ...
s on the abdomen.
One classification places this family in its own
infraorder
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Deuterophlebiomorpha, but this has not gained wide acceptance. A recent phylogeny of the entire order Diptera places them as the sister group to all other flies.
Species
Catalogue of Life
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accepts the following species within ''Deuterophlebia:''
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Deuterophlebia bicarinata
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 o ...
''
Courtney, 1994
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Deuterophlebia blepharis''
Courtney, 1994
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Deuterophlebia brachyrhina
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 o ...
''
Courtney, 1994
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Deuterophlebia coloradensis''
Pennak, 1945
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Deuterophlebia inyoensis''
Kennedy, 1960
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Deuterophlebia mirabilis''
Edwards, 1922
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Deuterophlebia nielsoni''
Kennedy, 1958
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Deuterophlebia nipponica''
Kitakami, 1938
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Deuterophlebia oporina''
Courtney, 1994
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Deuterophlebia personata''
Courtney, 1990
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Deuterophlebia sajanica''
Jedlička & Halgoš, 1981
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Deuterophlebia shasta''
Wirth, 1951
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Deuterophlebia tyosenensis''
Kitakami, 1938
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Deuterophlebia vernalis
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 o ...
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Courtney, 1990
References
Further reading
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External links
Photograph of larvaTree of Life Blephariceromorpha
Nematocera genera
Blephariceromorpha
Taxa named by Frederick Wallace Edwards
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