Anisopodidae
- Anisopus
- Mesochria
- Mycetobia
- Olbiogaster
- Sylvicola
- Valeseguya
The window mosquitoes ( Anisopodidae ), also known as Pfriemenmücken, are a family of two-winged flies (Diptera ) and belong to the flies ( Nematocera ).
Features
The window mosquitoes are mostly small to medium-sized mosquitoes that do not bite. The larvae bear a striking After sign. The tracheal system is open, otherwise completely closed at the foremost and rearmost Stigmenpaar. The dolls are strongly spined and have short breath croissants, before two long bristles. With the thorns, the dolls stand briefly before hatching of adults according to the substrate.
Way of life
The males form small flocks, in which the females fly to mate in sheltered places. The larvae will find them on a variety of decaying plant substrates. So Mycetobia pallipes lives about Baumausflüssen in water-filled Astflächen or in the aisles of bark beetles. The larvae of Sylvicola fenestralis live in rotting potatoes or beets and are known as " White wireworm " known. Some species live in sometimes even hives. In most species, there are probably several generations per year.
System
Worldwide, about one hundred species of this animal group, only five species are known from Germany. In Europe, the family of the window mosquitoes is represented by only one genus and ten species.
- Sylvicola baechlii Haenni, 1997
- Sylvicola cinctus (Fabricius, 1787)
- Sylvicola fenestralis ( Scopoli, 1763)
- Sylvicola fuscatoides Michelsen, 1999
- Sylvicola fuscatus (Fabricius, 1775)
- Sylvicola limpidus ( Edwards, 1923)
- Sylvicola oceanus ( Frey, 1949)
- Sylvicola punctatus (Fabricius, 1787)
- Sylvicola stackelbergi Krivosheina & Menzel, 1998
- Sylvicola zetterstedti ( Edwards, 1923)
Fossil evidence
Fossil evidence of Anisopodidae are scarce. The oldest known fossil window mosquitoes come from a Lower Jurassic reservoir in Kyrgyzstan. Another find from the Mesozoic goes back to an inclusion in Cretaceous Canadian amber. From tertiary amber deposits of the Eocene and the Miocene ( Baltic, Chinese, Dominican and Mexican amber ) individual members of this insect family have also been identified.