Lanehelea, Wirth & Blanton, 1972

Borkent, Art, 2024, The Phylogeny of the Genera of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of the World, Zootaxa 5438 (1), pp. 1-274 : 235

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5438.1.1

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scientific name

Lanehelea
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Lanehelea View in CoL :

- Female sternite 8 strongly modified, with well-developed lateral lobes and setae restricted to transverse row on a transverse ridge on the short basal portion of the sternite. The basal portion bends abruptly dorsally to extend to the common oviduct. This feature is nearly unique in Ceratopogonidae but quite similar to some species of Palpomyia in the distincta group ( Grogan & Wirth 1979a). Although the genus is described as such by Wirth & Blanton (1972), their illustration of L. spinifemur appears to lack this modification.

Grogan, W. L. & Wirth, W. W. (1979 a) The North American predaceous midges of the genus Palpomyia Meigen (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 8, 125 pp.

Wirth, W. W. & Blanton, F. S. (1972) Lanehelea, a new Neotropical genus of Sphaeromiini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Studia Entomologica, 15, 433 - 438.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae