Anatopyniini

Anatopyniini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Chironomidae
Subfamily: Tanypodinae
Tribe: Anatopyniini
Genera

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Anatopyniini is a tribe of midges in the non-biting midge family (Chironomidae).

Tribes & Genera

Distribution and ecology

At present A. plumipes is the only species of Anatopynia (Johannsen, 1905) known from the Palearctic. They occur in polluted (euthrophic and hyperthrophic) standing waters together with Chironomus gr. plumosus. They are large (compared to the larvae of other Tanypodinae) predators that can ingest large prey (such as Ostracods and Chironomus larvae) in one piece.[1]

References

  1. Int Panis, L; Pauwels A; Verheyen R (1995). "Some observations on the Chironomidae (Diptera) of ponds.". Bull. Annls Soc. r. belge Ent. 131: 187–189.
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