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Chaoborus

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Description

A glassworm is a type of larva of a midge genus called Chaoborus. They are also known as phantom midge larvae, because they are transparent. They can be found commonly in lakes all over the world and can be up to 2 cm (0.8 in). The adults are sometimes called phantom midges or lake flies.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaoborus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1679383	https://www.gbif.org/species/1679383
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	138312	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=138312

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Chaoboridae : Chaoborus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Mecopterida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera	Linnaeus 1758
infraorder	Culicomorpha
superfamily	Culicoidea	Meigen 1818
family	Chaoboridae	Edwards 1920
subfamily	Chaoborinae	Edwards 1920
genus	Chaoborus	Lichtenstein 1800

Scientific Name

Chaoborus Lichtenstein, 1800

Name Published In

Lichtenstein, A. A. H. 1800. Beschreibung eines neu entdeckten Wasserinsekts. Archiv für Zoologie und Zootomie 1(1): 168-175.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Chaoborus	genus	belongs to Chaoboridae	stated with evidence	Borkent, 1978
Chaoborus	genus	belongs to Culicidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Chaoborus	genus	belongs to Chaoborinae	stated with evidence	Borkent, 2014

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (25%)

First Recorded Appearance

47.8 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. A. H. Lichtenstein. 1800. Beschreibung eines neu entdeckten Wasserinsekts. Archivs für Zoologie und Zootomie 1:168-175

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaoborus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Chaoborus albatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus americanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus annandalei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus anomalus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus antillum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus asiaticus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus astictopus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus australis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus bolviensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus brasiliensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus brevisector species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus ceratopogones species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus ciliatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Chaoborus cooki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus cornfordii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus crystallinus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus depereti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus edulis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus elnorae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus festivus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus flavicans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus flavidulus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus freemani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus fryeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus fuscinervis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus indicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus longicercus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus maculipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus magnificus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus manilensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus microstictus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus nyblaei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus obscuripes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus ornatipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus pallidipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus pallidus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus punctilliger species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus punctipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus queenslandensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus rarus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Chaoborus sampsera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus souzai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus stonei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus tertiarius ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	28.4 Ma Oligocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Chaoborus trivittatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus unicolor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chaoborus vagus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Corethra ciliata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Culicites tertiarius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Culicites Heyden, 1862	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Chaoboridae : *Culicites*
Corethra Meigen, 1803	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Chaoboridae : *Corethra*
Proboscistoma Saccardo, 1864	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Chaoboridae : *Proboscistoma*
Corehtra Angelin, 1820	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Diptera : Chaoboridae : *Corehtra*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1800	Chaoborus Lichtenstein p. 174
1803	Corethra Meigen p. 260
1862	Culicites von Heyden p. 79
1877	Corethra Scudder p. 744
1905	Corethra Aldrich p. 136
1978	Chaoborus Borkent p. 491
1992	Chaoborus Carpenter
2014	Chaoborus Borkent p. 473

References

Lichtenstein A. A. H. Beschreibung eines neu entdeckten Wasserinsekts, Archivs für Zoologie und Zootomie 1, 168-175

Meigen J. W. Versuch einer neuen Gattungseintheilung der europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten, Magazin für Insektenkunde 2, 259-281

von Heyden C. Gliederthiere aus der Braunkohle des Niederrhein's, der Wetterau und der Röhn, Palaeontographica 10, 62-82

Scudder S. H. The First Discovered Traces of Fossil Insects in the American Tertiaries, Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 3, 741-762

Aldrich J. M. (1905) A catalogue of North American Diptera (or two-winged flies), Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 46 2, 1-680

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655

Borkent A. (2014) World catalog of extant and fossil Chaoboridae (Diptera), Zootaxa 3796, 469-493

Lichtenstein, A.A.H. (1800) Beschreibung eines neu entdeckten Wasserinsekts - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Beuk, P.L.Th. (ed.) (2002) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

Smith, K.G.V. (1989) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

Evenhuis, N. L. (2014). Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera), Version 2.0. Available at: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fossilcat/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

De Pauw, N. & Vannevel, R. (eds.) (1991) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

Archiv Zool. (Wiedemann), 1 (1) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nilsson, A. (ed.) (1997) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

SN2000/Brown Jr., 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fossilcat/ (fossil) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hansson, H.G. (Comp.) Chelicerata & Uniramia (1998) NEAT (North East Atlantic Taxa): South Scandinavian marine & maritime Chelicerata & Uniramia Check-List. Internet pdf Ed., Aug. 1998. [http://www.tmbl.gu.se]. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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