Genus Jenkinshelea

Classification · Identification · Remarks · Print References

Biting Midges Genus Jenkinshelea - Jenkinshelea

Ceratopogonidae - Jenkinshelea albaria - female

Texas SE Gulf Coast - Jenkinshelea albaria? - Jenkinshelea - female

Gray fly with white wing base - Jenkinshelea albaria

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))

Infraorder Culicomorpha (Mosquitoes and Midges)

Family Ceratopogonidae (Biting Midges)

Subfamily Ceratopogoninae

Tribe Sphaeromiini

Genus Jenkinshelea

Identification

Female wing very broad at base. Wing with contrasting white base and dark tip.

Remarks

Four species in North America, in two species groups each with a northern and southern species. Larvae are presumably aquatic predators and adults aerial predators, as in related genera.

Print References

Grogan, William L. and Willis W. Wirth. 1977. A revision of the Nearctic species of Jenkinshelea Macfie (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 79:126-141.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 11 March, 2014 - 7:56pm

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