Acricotopus lucens
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Chironomidae
- Genus: Acricotopus
- Species: Acricotopus lucens
Visual Description
Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, Acricotopus lucens exhibits the general body plan characteristic of the family Chironomidae, appearing as a small, slender, non-biting midge.[1] The adult form typically displays delicate, elongated wings and long, slender legs, with a body structure adapted for its aerial life stage.[1]
Ecology and Distribution
Acricotopus lucens is a recognized taxon within the family Chironomidae.[2] Research on the Tibetan Plateau has identified Acricotopus lucens-type as a dominant component of chironomid assemblages in the shallowest zones (≤0.65 m) of freshwater lakes, such as Taro Co.[3] In these environments, it is often found alongside other taxa like Pseudosmittia and Tanytarsus.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Chironomidae / Acricotopus / lucens constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Acricotopus lucens (Zetterstedt, 1850). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1447055. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- 1 2 Andreas Laug; Falko Turner; Stefan Engels; Junbo Wang; Torsten Haberzettl; Jianting Ju; Siwei Yu; Qiangqiang Kou; Nicole Börner; Antje Schwalb. Is there a common threshold to subfossil chironomid assemblages at 16 m water depth? Evidence from the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Limnology. 2020. https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2020.1964.