Biology:Cylindrotoma

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Short description: Genus of flies

Cylindrotoma
Cylindrotoma distinctissima.jpg
Cylindrotoma distinctissima
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Cylindrotoma

Macquart, 1834[2]
Type species
Limnobia distinctissima
Meigen, 1818
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File:Cylindrotoma distinctissima - 2014-07-19.webm Cylindrotoma is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae.

Biology

The larvae of the genus Cylindrotoma live on various flowering plants. Adults are to be found in damp wooded habitats.

Distribution

Species can be found throughout Asia, North America, and Europe. China in the most species-rich country.[citation needed]

Species

  • C. angustipennis Alexander, 1941
  • C. aurantia Alexander, 1935
  • C. borealis Peus, 1952
  • C. deserrata Alexander, 1972
  • C. distinctissima (Meigen, 1818)
  • C. fokiensis Alexander, 1949
  • C. hypopygialis Alexander, 1938
  • C. japonica Alexander, 1919
  • C. megacera Alexander, 1938
  • C. nigripes Alexander, 1931
  • C. nigritarsis Alexander, 1957
  • C. nigriventris Loew, 1849
  • C. pallidipes Alexander, 1954
  • C. rufescens Edwards, 1928
  • C. seticornis Alexander, 1964
  • C. simplex Alexander, 1972
  • C. subapterogyne Alexander, 1964
  • C. taiwania (Alexander, 1929)
  • C. tarsalis Johnson, 1912
  • C. trichophora Alexander, 1972


References

  1. Zhang, Xiao; Kang, Zehui; Mao, Meng; Li, Xuankun; Cameron, Stephen L.; de Jong, Herman; Wang, Mengqing; Yang, Ding (2016). "Comparative Mt Genomics of the Tipuloidea (Diptera: Nematocera: Tipulomorpha) and Its Implications for the Phylogeny of the Tipulomorpha". PLOS ONE 11 (6): e0158167. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158167. PMID 27341029. 
  2. Macquart, P. J. M. (1834). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Dipteres. Tome premiere. Paris: Roret. pp. 578 + 8 pp., 12 pls. 

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