Allocotocera
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Mycetophilidae
- Genus: Allocotocera
Visual Description
Allocotocera species, such as A. pulchella and A. bispinosa, exhibit the characteristic morphology of fungus gnats. Based on observations of museum specimens and field-collected individuals, these insects typically possess slender bodies and long, delicate legs, which are common traits within the family Mycetophilidae.[1] The wings are generally clear or lightly patterned, and the thorax is often arched.[1]
Ecology and Distribution
Allocotocera pulchella (Curtis) has been documented in faunistic surveys, such as those conducted in the Roztoczański National Park in southeastern Poland between 1986 and 1990.[2] These surveys recorded the species across a variety of forest-plant communities, including linden-hornbeam forests (Tilio-Carpinetum), beech woods (Dentario glandulosae-Fagetum), fir forests (Abietetum polonicum), pine woods (Leucobryo-Pinetum), and wet alder forests (Ribo nigri-Alnetum).[2]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Mycetophilidae / Allocotocera constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Waldemar Mikołajczyk. Mycetophilidae (Diptera) Roztocza. I. Wybrane Mycetophilidae Roztoczańskiego Parku Narodowego. Fragmenta Faunistica. 1996. https://doi.org/10.3161/00159301ff1996.39.8.103.