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 Chironomidae - Tanypodinae ...... ?
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| aesculus |
Posted on 07-02-2008 22:44
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Member Location: East Lincs, UK Posts: 35 Joined: 25.09.07 |
Encouraged by two recent Chironimid posts I feel like chancing my luck with the attached image and asking if anyone is bold enough to suggest a tribe or genus. I have had it suggested that it might be a tanypod. It was found last August in East Lincs, UK. aesculus attached the following image:  [27.76Kb] |
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| aesculus |
Posted on 07-02-2008 22:50
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Member Location: East Lincs, UK Posts: 35 Joined: 25.09.07 |
A quick postscript to my midge query The background is a 2mm grid making the midge just over 6mm. Cheers. |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 08-02-2008 19:06
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7283 Joined: 19.11.04 |
This is very reminiscent of Procladius, but dark-patterned wings occur in many other tanypodine genera, and occasionally in other subfamilies. To be sure of an identification, you do need to have a collected male. This is a male, but was it collected? 
Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| aesculus |
Posted on 08-02-2008 22:05
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Member Location: East Lincs, UK Posts: 35 Joined: 25.09.07 |
Thank you for that Tony. No, it was not collected and I had no expectation of getting a species ID for it. A possible genus was the most I was hoping for. I had trawled the web and found a 'superficially similar' Tanypus image and I see that certain species have Procladius and Tanypus synonyms so it is reassuring just to have it in the same ballpark. In this complex family I can live with a 'possible genus'. Thanks for your help. |
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