Metacanthohelea, Wirth & Grogan, 1988

Borkent, Art, 2024, The Phylogeny of the Genera of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of the World, Zootaxa 5438 (1), pp. 1-274 : 229

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5438.1.1

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5875621C-FF4F-29AC-FF3F-B72CFCB2779B

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scientific name

Metacanthohelea
status

 

Metacanthohelea View in CoL :

- Male cercus, quite slender, elongate, finger-like. The cercus of most other ceratopogonids is either lobe-like or, if more elongate, somewhat flattened mediolaterally. However, the feature is also present in Isthmohelea , where the cercus is significantly thicker than in Metacanthohelea .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

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