Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Diptera > Chironomidae > Cricotopus > Cricotopus trifasciatus

Cricotopus trifasciatus

Synonyms:

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Clogwyni Pen Llyn/ Seacliffs of Lleyn 2591 Wales, United Kingdom
Dungeness 7966 England, United Kingdom
Fenland 1529 England, United Kingdom

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Persicaria amphibia (water knotweed)[1]
Potamogeton distinctus (floatingleaf pondweed)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Charanyca ferruginea1
Cricotopus tricinctus (hydrilla tip mining midge)1
Hydrellia maura1
Notaris acridulus1
Rhinoncus inconspectus1

Providers

Parasite of 
Potamogeton distinctus (floatingleaf pondweed)[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2Ecology of Commanster
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0