Chaoborus flavicans (Meigen, 1830)
(a phantom midge)

Chaoborus flavicans (a phantom midge) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Chaoborus flavicans (a phantom midge) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesChaoborus flavicans (a phantom midge)
GenusChaoborus (phantom midges)
FamilyCHAOBORIDAE (phantom midges)
SuperfamilyCULICOIDEA (mosquitoes, gnats, meniscus & phantom midges)
InfraorderCulicomorpha (mosquitoes, gnats, midges & blackflies)
SuborderNEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies, gnat)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Chaoborus flavicans (a phantom midge)

Chaoborus flavicans (a phantom midge) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Kleiven, O.T., Larsson, P. & Hobaek, A. 1996 Direct distributional response in Daphnia pulex to a predator kairomone J. Plankton Res. Vol 18 (8): 1341-1348.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Chaoborus flavicans (a phantom midge):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 16 images of Chaoborus flavicans (a phantom midge)
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