Keroplatus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Nematocera
Infraordo: Bibionomorpha
Superfamilia: Sciaroidea

Familia: Keroplatidae
Subfamilia: Keroplatinae
Tribus: Keroplatini
Genus: Keroplatus
Species: K. apicalis – K. carbonarius – K. clausus – K. maxi – K. militaris – K. nipponicus – K. samiri – K. testaceus – K. terminalis – K. tipuloides
Name

Keroplatus Bosc, 1792

Keroplatus tipuloides

References

Template:Bosc, 1792

Mederos, J.L. 2018. New species of Heteropterna Skuse and Keroplatus Bosc (Diptera: Keroplatidae) become the second records of this family for Cuba. Zootaxa 4461(1): 57–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4461.1.3 Paywall Reference page.

Links

http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genustaxon?id=2160

Keroplatus is a genus of predatory fungus gnats in the family Keroplatidae. Several species are bioluminescent.[1]

Selected Species

Some species within this genus include:

K. apicalis Adams, 1903
K. biformis Okada, 1938
K. carbonarius Bosc, 1803
K. clausus Coquillett, 1901
K. militaris Johannsen, 1910
K. nipponicus Okada, 1938
K. reaumurii Dufour, 1839
K. samiri Khalaf, 1971
K. terminalis Coquillett, 1905
K. testaceus (Dalman, 1818)
K. tipuloides (Bosc, 1792)[2]

References

V.R. Viviani, D.T. Amaral, V.R. Bevilaqua, R.L. Falaschi (2018) Orfelia-type luciferin and its associated storage protein in the non-luminescent cave worm Neoditomyia sp. (Diptera: Keroplatidae) from the Atlantic rainforest: biological and evolutionary implications. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 17: 1282-1288.

Cardew, Melanie; Carrières, Evelyne (2001). "First Record of Keroplatus tipuloides (Bosc, 1792) in Luxembourg (Diptera, Nematocera, Keroplatidae)". Bull. Soc. Nat. luxemb. 101: 111–116. Retrieved 15 December 2019.