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Allarete

Allarete is a genus of midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are twelve described species in this genus. It is known from the holarctic, afrotropical, and oriental regions. The genus was first described by Arthur Earl Pritchard in 1951.

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Allarete
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily: Lestremiinae
Genus: Allarete
Pritchard, 1951
Type species
Allarete vernalis
(Felt, 1908)
Synonyms
  • Allaretina Mamaev, 1994

Allarete is a genus of midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are twelve described species in this genus.1 It is known from the holarctic, afrotropical, and oriental regions.1 The genus was first described by Arthur Earl Pritchard in 1951.1

Species

  • Allarete africana Enderlein, 1911
  • Allarete bharatica Grover & Bakhshi, 1978
  • Allarete bhokarensis Deshpande, Shaikh & Sharma, 2002
  • Allarete bicornuta Jaschhof, 1997
  • Allarete deepica Deshpande, Shaikh & Sharma, 2002
  • Allarete hindica (Deshpande, Shaikh & Sharma, 2002)
  • Allarte indica (Grover, 1964)
  • Allarete nigra Mamaev, 1994
  • Allarete orientalis (Grover, 1964)
  • Allarete spatuliformis Grover, 1979
  • Allarete spinosa Deshpande, Shaikh & Sharma, 2002
  • Allarete vernalis (Felt, 1908)
References

References

  1. R.J. Gagne; M. Jaschof (2021). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (5th ed.). ISBN 978-0-9863941-3-3. Wikidata Q109561625.