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Chironomidae or Chaoboridae ?
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 Size 4 mm, on bamboo leaf, near a little pound
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 Thanks Tony.
Is it possible to go to genus from picture for this male ?
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 Tribe Tanytarsini. Genus is hard.

The 8th tergite is constricted (triangular) in Polypedilum and some Tanytarsini. In Tanytarsini the base of M is nearly continuous with R-M and R4+5; M turns an angle at the crossvein.
 
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 Thanks a lot John, I appreciate to know the tribe, it was quite unhoped for me.
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