Chaoboridae

The larvae are nearly transparent, sometimes with a slightly yellow cast; their most opaque features are two air bags, one in the thorax, one in the abdomen about in the second last segment. The adults are delicate flies that closely resemble Chironomidae. Their antennae are 15-segmented and the females' antennae are somewhat bristly; the males' antennae, in contrast, are very plumose. In this respect, too, they resemble many of the Nematocera, and in particular the Chironomidae. The species vary in size from about 2 mm to 10 mm long in their adult stages. ==Genera==

There are about 90 species in the family Chaoboridae in about 17 extant and 11 extinct genera. • † Mesocorethra Kalugina, 1993 • † Rhaetomyia Rohdendorf, 1962 • † Taimyborus Lukashevich, 1999 • † Triassomyia Lukashevich, 2022 ==References==