British Insects: the Families of Diptera
British Insects: the Families of Diptera |
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Macroceridae; ~Mycetophilidae.
Adult insects. Slender-bodied; stilt-legged. Antennae 8–16 segmented; ‘simple’. Antennae not aristate. Ocelli present. Eyes not meeting. The maxillary palps 3–5 segmented; drooping. Wings without a discal cell; without a sub-apical cell; without a closed anal cell. Sub-costa apparent; reaching the costa independently of vein 1 (Orfelia). The leading edge veins markedly stronger than the rest (?). Wings with the lower calypter much reduced or absent. Tibiae apically spurred. Feet without a triple pad. Abdomen constricted basally.
Larvae and pupae. Larvae terrestrial; eucephalic. Pupa without a puparium.
Classification. Suborder Nematocera; Division Bibionomorpha; Superfamily Sciaroidea.
British representation. 52 species in Britain. Genera 15; Antlemon, Asindulum, Cerotelion, Isoneuromyia, Keroplatus, Macrocera, Macrorhyncha, Monocentrota, Neoplatyura, Orfelia, Platyura, Pyratula, Rototelion, Rutilapa, Urytalpa.
Illustrations. • Macrocera stigma Curtis: B. Ent. 637. • Macrocera stigma Curtis: B. Ent. 637, legend+text. • Macrocera stigma Curtis: B. Ent. 637, text cont.. • Macrorrhyncha and Platyura (from Walker). • Macrocera lutea (from Walker). • Macrocera phalerata: Stephens 1846.
To view the illustrations with detailed captions, go to the interactive key. This also offers full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, and distributions of character states within any set of taxa.
Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. British insects: the families of Diptera. Version: 28th August 2009. http://delta-intkey.com’.
