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Bibionidae - Bibio Hortulanus (male)
Bibionidae (March flies) is a family of flies (Diptera) containing approximately 650–700 species worldwide. Adults are nectar feeders and emerge in numbers in spring. Because of the likelihood of adult flies being found ''in copula'', they have earned colloquial names such as "love bugs" or "honeymoon flies". Description Bibionidae are medium-sized flies with a body length from 4.0 to 10.0 mm. The body is black, brown, or rusty, and thickset, with thick legs. The antennae are moniliform. The front tibiae bear large strong spurs or a circlet of spines. The tarsi are five-segmented and bear tarsal claws, pulvilli, and a well developed empodium. The wings have two basal cells (posterior basal wing cell and basal wing cell), but are without a discoidal wing cell. R4+5 is simple or branched; at most, only three branches of R developed. The leading edge wing veins are stronger than the weak veins of the trailing edge. Biology Bibionid larvae grow up in grassy areas and ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horse-flies
Horse flies and deer flies are true flies in the family Tabanidae in the insect order Diptera. The adults are often large and agile in flight. Only females bite land vertebrates, including humans, to obtain blood. They prefer to fly in sunlight, avoiding dark and shady areas, and are inactive at night. They are found all over the world except for some islands and the polar regions (Hawaii, Greenland, Iceland). Both horse flies and botflies (Oestridae) are sometimes referred to as gadflies. Adult horse flies feed on nectar and plant exudates; males have weak mouthparts, but females have mouthparts strong enough to puncture the skin of large animals. This is for the purpose of obtaining enough protein from blood to produce eggs. The mouthparts of females are formed into a stout stabbing organ with two pairs of sharp cutting blades, and a spongelike part used to lap up the blood that flows from the wound. The larvae are predaceous and grow in semiaquatic habitats. Female hor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibio (fly)
''Bibio'', March flies or St. Mark's flies, is a genus of flies (Diptera). Biology ''Bibio'' larvae live in grassy areas and are herbivores and scavengers feeding on dead vegetation or living plant roots. Some species are found in compost. In some areas, ''Bibio'' flies are regular flower visitors and they are suggested to be pollinators of several plant species, such as hogweed ('' Heracleum sphondylium'') and mouse-ear hawkweed ('' Hieracium pilosella''). ''Bibio'' flies also show strong sexual dichotomy, with males and females having significant differences in body morphology. Species *'' B. abbreviatus'' Loew, 1864 *'' B. acaptus'' Durrenfeldt, 1968 *'' B. acerbus'' Yang & Luo, 1989 *'' B. acutifidis'' Yang & Luo, 1989 *'' B. albagulus'' Durrenfeldt, 1968 *'' B. albipennis'' Say, 1823 *'' B. alexanderi'' James, 1936 *'' B. alienus'' McAtee, 1923 *'' B. anasiformis'' Durrenfeldt, 1968 *'' B. anglicus'' Verrall, 1869 *'' B. anposis'' Hardy, 1968 *'' B. articulatus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extinction
Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and recover. As a species' potential Range (biology), range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. This difficulty leads to phenomena such as Lazarus taxon, Lazarus taxa, where a species presumed extinct abruptly "reappears" (typically in the Fossil, fossil record) after a period of apparent absence. Over five billion species are estimated to have died out. It is estimated that there are currently around 8.7 million species of eukaryotes globally, possibly many times more if microorganisms are included. Notable extinct animal species include Dinosaur, non-avian dinosaurs, Machairodontinae, saber-toothed cats, and mammoths. Through evolution, species arise through the process of specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enicoscolus
''Enicoscolus'' is a genus of March flies (Bibionidae Bibionidae (March flies) is a Family (biology), family of Fly, flies (Fly, Diptera) containing approximately 650–700 species worldwide. Adults are nectar feeders and emerge in numbers in spring. Because of the likelihood of adult flies being f ...). Species *'' E. brachycephalus'' Hardy, 1961 *'' E. collessi'' Hardy, 1962 *'' E. dolichocephalus'' Hardy, 1961 *'' E. hardyi'' Fitzgerald, 1997 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q11967579 Bibionidae Nematocera genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Wilhelm Meigen
Johann Wilhelm Meigen (3 May 1764 – 11 July 1845) was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera. Life Early years Meigen was born in Solingen, the fifth of eight children of Johann Clemens Meigen and Sibylla Margaretha Bick. His parents, though not poor, were not wealthy either. They ran a small shop in Solingen. His paternal grandparents, however, owned an estate and hamlet with twenty houses. Adding to the rental income, Meigen's grandfather was a farmer and a guild mastercutler in Solingen. Two years after Meigen was born, his grandparents died and his parents moved to the family estate. This was already heavily indebted by the Seven Years' War, then bad crops and rash speculations forced the sale of the farm and the family moved back to Solingen. Meigen attended the town school but only for a short time. He had learned to read and write on his grandfather's estate and he read widely at home as well as taking an interest in natural history. A l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilophus
''Dilophus'' is a genus of March fly, March flies in the family Bibionidae. There are at least 200 described species in ''Dilophus''. Species found in Europe *''Dilophus antipedalis'' *''Dilophus beckeri'' *''Dilophus bispinosus'' *''Dilophus borealis'' *''Dilophus febrilis'' *''Dilophus femoratus'' *''Dilophus hiemalis'' *''Dilophus humeralis'' *''Dilophus lingens'' *''Dilophus maderae'' *''Dilophus minor'' *''Dilophus neglectus'' *''Dilophus oceanus'' *''Dilophus sardous'' *''Dilophus tenuis'' *''Dilophus tridentatus'' See also * List of Dilophus species References Further reading * * * * External links * Bibionidae Bibionomorpha genera {{Bibionomorpha-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cascoplecia
''Cascoplecia insolitis'', rarely known as the unicorn fly, is an extinct dipteran that lived in the Early Cretaceous. The type specimen was found in Burmese amber. George Poinar Jr., who described the fossil, placed the genus into a new family Cascopleciidae. One of the defining characteristics of ''Cascoplecia'' is the presence of three ocelli raised on an extended, horn-like protuberance. The distinctiveness of the family was questioned by other authors, and the genus has been subsequently transferred to the family Bibionidae.Thomas Pape, Vladimir Blagoderov & Mikhail B. Mostovski. 201Order DIPTERA Linnaeus, 1758.In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. References Bibionomorpha genera Fossil taxa described in 2010 Cretaceous insects of Asia Burmese amber Fossils of Myanmar † A dagger, obelisk, or obelus is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Wallace Edwards
Frederick Wallace Edwards FRS (28 November 1888 in Fletton, Peterborough – 15 November 1940 in London), was an English entomologist. Edwards was known in the field of entomology for his work on Diptera. Edwards worked in the British Museum (Natural History) which contains his collections made on his expeditions to Norway and Sweden (1923), Switzerland and Austria (1925), Argentina and Chile (1926/27), with Raymond Corbett Shannon, Corsica and USA (1928), the Baltic (1933), Kenya and Uganda (1934-5) (as co-leader of the British Museum Ruwenzori expedition of 1934-35) with Ernest Gibbins, and the Pyrenees (1935). He was able to oversee publication of Alwyn M. Evan's monograph on ''The Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region'' after her death in 1937. Among the unusual insects that he described was the flightless marine midge '' Pontomyia''. The mosquito genus '' Fredwardsius'' is named to honor his work establishing the generic and subgeneric framework which forms the basis fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibionellus
''Bibionellus'' is a genus of March flies (Bibionidae Bibionidae (March flies) is a Family (biology), family of Fly, flies (Fly, Diptera) containing approximately 650–700 species worldwide. Adults are nectar feeders and emerge in numbers in spring. Because of the likelihood of adult flies being f ...). Species *'' B. aczeli'' Hardy, 1953 *'' B. barrettoi'' Lane & Forattini, 1948 *'' B. halteralis'' ( Coquillett, 1904) *'' B. paulistensis'' Lane & Forattini, 1948 *'' B. tibialis'' Edwards, 1935 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q11960949 Bibionidae Nematocera genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
