Window mosquitoes

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Window mosquitoes
Sylvicola fenestralis

Sylvicola fenestralis

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Fly (Diptera)
Subordination : Mosquitoes (Nematocera)
Partial order : Psychodomorpha
Superfamily : Anisopodoidea
Family : Window mosquitoes
Scientific name
Anisopodidae
Edwards , 1921
Genera
  • Carreraia
  • Eoanisopodites †
  • Hongocaloneura †
  • Huaxiar hyphus †
  • Lobogaster
  • Megaryphoid †
  • Mesobrachyopteryx †
  • Mesochria
  • Mesorhyphus †
  • Olbiogaster
  • Pachyrhyphus †
  • Sinorhyphus †
  • Sylvicola
  • Thiras †

The anisopodidae (Anisopodidae), also known as Pfriemenmücken, are a family of Diptera (Diptera) and are among the mosquitoes (Nematocera).

features

The window mosquitoes are mostly small to medium-sized mosquitoes that do not bite. The larvae have a conspicuous vent shield. The tracheal system is open at the foremost and rearmost pair of stigmas , otherwise completely closed. The pupae have strong thorns and short breathing horns, in front of which they have two long bristles. With thorns, the dolls stand briefly before hatching of imagos from the substrate.

Way of life

The males form small swarms in shady places, into which the females fly to mate. The larvae stay on a wide variety of decaying plant substrates. Mycetobia pallipes, for example, lives in tree effluents, water-filled knots or in the corridors of bark beetles . The larvae of Sylvicola fenestralis live in rotting potatoes or turnips and are known as "white wireworm". Some species even occasionally live in beehives. In most species there are probably several generations a year.

Systematics

Around a hundred species of this group of animals live worldwide, only five are known from Germany . In Europe , the window mosquito family has only one genus and ten species.

Fossil evidence

Fossil evidence of Anisopodidae is rare. The oldest known fossil window mosquitoes come from a Lower Jurassic deposit in Kyrgyzstan . Another find from the Mesozoic era goes back to an inclusion in Cretaceous Canadian amber . Individual representatives of this family of insects have also been identified from tertiary amber deposits of the Eocene and Miocene ( Baltic , Chinese, Dominican and Mexican amber ).

photos

  • Probably Sylvicola fenestralis

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anisopodidae. Fauna Europaea, Version 1.3, April 19, 2007 , accessed on June 4, 2008 .
  2. ↑ http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fossilcat/fossanisopod.html fossil Diptera (Engl.)
  3. ↑ George O. Poinar, Jr .: Life in Amber . 350 pp., 147 figs., 10 plates, Stanford University Press, Stanford (Cal.) 1992. ISBN 0-8047-2001-0
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Weitschat and Wilfried Wichard: Atlas of plants and animals in Baltic amber , 256 p., Numerous. Fig., Pfeil-Verlag, Munich 1998. ISBN 3-931516-45-8

literature

  • Klaus Honomichl, Heiko Bellmann (1994): Biology and Ecology of Insects ; CD-Rom, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart.

Web links

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