Anarete johnsoni
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Cecidomyiidae
- Genus: Anarete
- Species: Anarete johnsoni
Visual Description
Anarete johnsoni is a small midge belonging to the family Cecidomyiidae. Based on examination of museum specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the species exhibits typical morphological characteristics of the genus Anarete.[1] The specimens are generally delicate in form, consistent with other members of the subfamily Lestremiinae.[2]
Biology and Distribution
Anarete johnsoni (Felt, 1908) is a member of the subfamily Lestremiinae, a group characterized by mycophagous larvae.[2] The genus Anarete is distinguished by antennae with 6 to 7 flagellomeres, where the pedicel is more than 1.5 times the length of the scape, and the flagellomeres lack a neck and a crenulate whorl of setae.[2]
The species has a broad distribution, known from the Nearctic (U.S.A.), Palearctic (including the UK, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Latvia, and Russia), and Australasian regions.[2] It has also been recorded in Brazil (state of São Paulo), marking its presence in the Neotropical region.[2] In the Neotropics, Anarete species appear to prefer open habitats.[2]
Interactions recorded for A. johnsoni include visiting flowers of plants in the family Apiaceae.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Cecidomyiidae / Anarete / johnsoni constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Carlos José Einicker Lamas; Antonio Marcelino do Carmo-Neto; Maria Virgínia Urso-Guimarães. New South American records of the Lestremiinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), with an identification key to the Neotropical genera. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 2025. https://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2025.65.013.
- ↑ Anarete johnsoni. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Anarete%20johnsoni. Accessed 2026-07-14.