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Psychodomorpha Genera
The nematoceran infraorder Psychodomorpha (sometimes misspelled as Psychomorpha, which is the name of a genus of noctuid moths) includes three families, Psychodidae, Blephariceridae, and Tanyderidae, as well as the superfamily Scatopsoidea, which contains the families Canthyloscelidae, Scatopsidae and Valeseguyidae Valeseguyidae is a family of flies, belonging to Scatopsoidea. It contains only one known extant species, ''Valeseguya rieki'', known from a single male specimen found in Victoria, Australia, described in 1990. It was initially classified as a m .... External links Tree of Life Psychodomorpha Insect infraorders {{Psychodomorpha-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clogmia Albipunctata
''Clogmia albipunctata'' is a species of drain fly, a member of the family Psychodidae commonly known as the bathroom moth midge, bathroom moth fly or drain fly. Distribution This very common species has a worldwide distribution in tropical and temperate areas and is often associated with humans. The species can be found near sewer drains, sewage treatment plants, plant pots, swamps and any other shaded place containing decaying, moist organic matter. The species is a common pest around household drains, but the larvae have an important role in sewage treatment. Description ''Clogmia albipunctata'' adults have broad wings covered with brownish and blackish hairs. There is a tuft of blackish hair near each wing vein fork and a tuft of white hair at the ends of most veins (i.e. each wing has a pair of black spots near the middle and several white spots along the edge). The thorax and abdomen are covered in gray/brownish-gray hairs. There is a pair of antennae which are longer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychodidae
Psychodidae, also called drain flies, sink flies, filter flies, sewer flies, or sewer gnats, is a Family (biology), family of Fly, true flies. Some genera have short, hairy bodies and wings, giving them a "furry" moth-like appearance, hence one of their common names, moth flies. Members of the sub-family Phlebotominae, which are hematophagous (feed on blood), may be called sand flies in some countries, although this term is also used for other unrelated flies, such as horse flies (Tabanidae) and no-see-ums (Ceratopogonidae). There are more than 2,600 described species worldwide, most of them native to the humid tropics. This makes them one of the most diverse families of their order. Drain flies sometimes inhabit plumbing drains and sewage systems, where they are harmless, but may be a persistent annoyance. Life cycle The larvae of the subfamilies Psychodinae, Sycoracinae and Horaiellinae live in aquatic to semi-terrestrial or sludge-based habitats, including bathroom sinks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blephariceridae
The Blephariceridae, commonly known as net-winged midges, are a nematoceran family in the order Diptera. The adults resemble crane flies except with a projecting anal angle in the wings, and different head shape, absence of the V on the mesonotum, and more laterally outstretched, forward-facing legs. They are uncommon, but dozens of genera occur worldwide, and over 200 species. They are found near fast-flowing streams where the larvae live. Blepharicerid larvae are filter feeders and have suckers on their abdominal sternites, used to adhere to rocks in the torrents in which they live. These suckers are sometimes called creeping welts. These are of unique evolutionary origin within the Diptera. One recent classification based largely on fossils treats this family as the sole member of its infraorder, but this has not gained wide acceptance. Selected genera and species *Subfamily Blepharicerinae **Tribe Blepharicerini ***''Agathon'' Rodor, 1890 ****'' Agathon arizonica'' (Alex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanyderidae
Tanyderidae, sometimes called primitive crane flies, are long, thin, delicate flies with spotted wings, superficially similar in appearance to some Tipulidae, Trichoceridae, and Ptychopteridae. Most species are restricted in distribution. They are found in many parts of the world, including North America, South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and various islands in the Pacific Ocean. Adults are usually found hanging from vegetation near streams. Larvae are found either in sandy stream margins or in wet, rotten wood. Fossil species are known. Taxonomy Based on * Nannotanyderinae ** †'' Coramus'' ***''Coramus gedanensis'' Baltic amber, Eocene 37.2 - 33.9 Ma ** †'' Dacochile'' Poinar & Brown, 2004 ***''Dacochile microsoma,'' Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian), 99 Ma ** †'' Nannotanyderus'' ***''Nannotanyderus ansorgei'' Lebanese amber, Early Cretaceous (Barremian), 130-125 Ma ***''Nannotanyderus grimmenensis'' " Green Series", Germany, Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scatopsoidea
Scatopsoidea is a superfamily of true flies that comprises the families Canthyloscelidae, Scatopsidae, and Valeseguyidae. There are about 400 known species worldwide but more may yet to be discovered, especially in the tropics. Identification In Scatopsoidea, the posterior margin of the katepisternum is displaced to a more posterior disposition, causing the pleural suture to be folded. The superfamily also has a well-developed sperm pump and associated apodemes. Phylogeny Based on morphological features, Scatopsidae and Canthyloscelidae are sister groups to each other, and Valeseguyidae is the sister group to them. An analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial gene markers supported the monophyly In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of organisms which meets these criteria: # the grouping contains its own most recent comm ... of Scatopsoidea. It also found t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canthyloscelidae
The Canthyloscelidae are a small family of midges closely related to the Scatopsidae. Adults are small to medium-sized (2.5-9.0 mm) flies, relatively stout, usually dark coloured Nematocera with stout legs. They are associated with ancient woodland. Larvae are xylosaprophagous and live in the moist, rotting wood of stumps and fallen trees. Most are considered endangered due to the vulnerability of their habitat. Fifteen described species live in New Zealand, North America, South America, Japan and Russia, and one is known from the Jurassic fossil record. Systematics Originally considered to be two separate families, the Synneuridae and the Canthyloscelidae. Haenni placed the Synneuridae as the subfamily Synneurinae. A phylogenetic reclassification by Amorim has reduced the Synneurinae into a synonymy of Canthyloscelinae. * Genus '' Canthyloscelis'' Edwards, 1922 **'' Canthyloscelis antennata'' Edwards, 1922 **'' Canthyloscelis apicata'' Edwards, 1934 **'' Canthylos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scatopsidae
__NOTOC__ The minute black scavenger flies or "dung midges", are a family, Scatopsidae, of nematoceran fly, flies. Despite being distributed throughout the world, they form a small family with only around 250 described species in 27 genera, although many await description and doubtless even more await discovery. These are generally small, sometimes minute, dark flies (from 0.6 to 5 mm), generally similar to black fly, black flies (Simuliidae), but usually lacking the humped thorax characteristic of that family. The larvae of most species are unknown, but the few that have been studied have a rather flattened shape and are terrestrial animal, terrestrial and saprophagous. Scatopsids are a well established group and fossils are known from amber deposits dating back to the Cretaceous period. ''Scatopse notata'' (Linnaeus, 1758) is a cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan species. Its larval stages are found in decaying plant and animal material. Genera * ''Anapausis'' Ende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeseguyidae
Valeseguyidae is a family of flies, belonging to Scatopsoidea. It contains only one known extant species, ''Valeseguya rieki'', known from a single male specimen found in Victoria, Australia, described in 1990. It was initially classified as a member of the wood gnat family Mycetobiidae, but was later given its own family in 2006. Two fossil species are known, including another species of '' Valeseguya'', ''V. disjuncta'', which is known from Miocene aged Dominican amber from the Caribbean, and '' Cretoseguya'', containing the single species ''C. burmitica'', which is known from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. Th ... of Myanmar, dating to around 100 million years ago. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4052590 Nematocera families Nema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nematocera
The Nematocera (the name meaning "thread-horns") are a suborder of elongated fly, flies with thin, segmented antenna (biology), antennae and mostly aquatic larvae. This group is paraphyletic and contains all flies except for species from suborder Brachycera (the name meaning "short-horns"), which includes more commonly known species such as the housefly or the Drosophila_melanogaster, common fruit fly. The equivalent clade to Nematocera is the whole Diptera, with Brachycera as a subclade. Families in Nematocera include mosquitoes, crane fly, crane flies, gnats, Black fly, black flies, and multiple families commonly known as midges. The Nematocera typically have fairly long, fine, finely-jointed antennae. In many species, such as most mosquitoes, the female antennae are more or less threadlike, but the males have spectacularly wikt:plumose, plumose antennae. The larvae of most families of Nematocera are aquatic, either free-swimming, rock-dwelling, plant-dwelling, or wikt:luticolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychomorpha
''Psychomorpha'' is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by Thaddeus William Harris in 1839. Its only species, ''Psychomorpha epimenis'', the grapevine epimenis, was first described by Dru Drury in 1782. It is found in eastern North America as far west as the Oklahoma Panhandle. Description The wings and body are black with a large white forewing patch and a red hindwing patch. The wingspan ranges from 2.2 to 2.7 cm.Covell, Charles V. Jr. (2005). ''Moths of Eastern North America''. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, VA. Subspecies * ''Psychomorpha epimenis epimenis'' * ''Psychomorpha epimenis euryrhoda'' (Florida) - has a red hindwing patch that stretches almost to the base of the wing Habitat This moth may be encountered in woodlands, woodland edges, and hedgerows.Wagner, David L. (2005). ''Caterpillars of Eastern North America''. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. Flight The grapevine epimenis is a spring moth which may be f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noctuidae
The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family (biology), family of moths. Taxonomically, they are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other families of the Noctuoidea. It was considered the largest family in Lepidoptera for a long time, but after regrouping Lymantriinae, Catocalinae and Calpinae within the family Erebidae, the latter holds this title now. Currently, Noctuidae is the second largest family in Noctuoidea, with about 1,089 List of noctuid genera, genera and 11,772 species. This classification is still contingent, as more changes continue to appear between Noctuidae and Erebidae. Description Adult: Most noctuid adults have wings with a variety of shades of browns, grays, and other varied shades and colourations but some subfamilies, such as Acronictinae and Agaristinae, are very colorful, especially those from tropical regions (e.g. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychodomorpha
The nematoceran infraorder Psychodomorpha (sometimes misspelled as Psychomorpha, which is the name of a genus of noctuid moths) includes three families, Psychodidae, Blephariceridae, and Tanyderidae, as well as the superfamily Scatopsoidea, which contains the families Canthyloscelidae, Scatopsidae and Valeseguyidae Valeseguyidae is a family of flies, belonging to Scatopsoidea. It contains only one known extant species, ''Valeseguya rieki'', known from a single male specimen found in Victoria, Australia, described in 1990. It was initially classified as a m .... External links Tree of Life Psychodomorpha Insect infraorders {{Psychodomorpha-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
