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Acanthohelea Kieffer 1917
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Description
Subgenus Acanthohelea Kieffer, 1917
Type species. Acanthohelea pruinosa Kieffer, 1917; by monotypy.
Diagnosis. Top of the wing with macrotrichia. Male genitalia: aedeagus bent, with a bulge in the middle. Femora without spines, legs with strong setae, especially tibiae; fifth tarsomere rarely with ventral spines. One or two seminal capsules present (Wirth & Grogan 1988, Alwin & Szadziewski 2012).
Notes
Published as part of Alwin-Kownacka, Alicja, Szadziewski, Ryszard & Szwedo, Jacek, 2016, Biting midges of the tribe Ceratopogonini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Middle East, with keys and descriptions of new species, pp. 551-572 in Zootaxa 4079 (5) on page 568, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4079.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1050879
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kieffer
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Ceratopogonidae
- Genus
- Acanthohelea
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acanthohelea Kieffer, 1917 sec. Alwin-Kownacka, Szadziewski & Szwedo, 2016
References
- Wirth, W. W. & Grogan, W. L. (1988) The predaceous midges of the World. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae; Tribe Ceratopogonini). Flora and Fauna Handbook 4. E. J. Brill. New York, 160 pp.
- Alwin, A. & Szadziewski, R. (2012) Biting midges of the genus Stilobezzia Kieffer, 1911 in Poland (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Polish Journal of Entomology, 81, 365 - 382.