Acamptocladius
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Chironomidae
- Genus: Acamptocladius
Visual Description
Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, Acamptocladius specimens exhibit the characteristic body form of non-biting midges within the family Chironomidae.[1] They possess slender, elongated bodies typical of the subfamily Orthocladiinae, with delicate, multi-segmented antennae and wings that are held over the abdomen when at rest.[1]
General Information
Acamptocladius is a genus of non-biting midges belonging to the subfamily Orthocladiinae within the family Chironomidae.[2] Members of this genus have been documented in various environments, including alpine lakes.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Chironomidae / Acamptocladius constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Peter Bitušík; Milan Novikmec; Ladislav Hamerlík. Chironomids (Insecta, Diptera, Chironomidae) from alpine lakes in the Eastern Carpathians with comments on newly-recorded species from Ukraine. Biodiversity Data Journal. 2020. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.8.e49378.