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Chasmoptera
Sign in to saveChasmoptera is a genus in the Nemopteridae (the spoonwing family of insects). The genus, which consists of three species, is wholly confined to Western Australia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderNeuroptera
- FamilyNemopteridae
Observations15
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Nemopteridae
- Image
- Chasmoptera hutti (45962054442).jpg
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- taxon name
- Chasmoptera
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Chasmoptera
- taxon author citation
- Kirby, 1900
- diel cycle
- diurnality
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Encyclopedic overview
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Chasmoptera is a genus in the Nemopteridae (the spoonwing family of insects). The genus, which consists of three species, is wholly confined to Western Australia.
The genus was first described by William Forsell Kirby in 1900, and the type species is Chasmoptera huttii.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chasmoptera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.