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 Dixidae Dixa larva with new images
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-12-2008 10:52
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 Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
Hi, I think theses may be larvae of Dixa sp. But I have very few books or pictures about them, so can be wrong easily Can anyone confirm?Larvae found in a semi-thermal stream that usually does not freeze in winter and is full of introduced tropical aquarium weeds and also with Riccia water moss. At the edge of Bükk-mountains (where Dixa-s do occur) in Miskolc-Tapolca, April of 2007. Sorry for low quality. pwalter attached the following image:  [89.59Kb] Edited by pwalter on 12-12-2008 19:43 |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-12-2008 10:55
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Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
Abdomen
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-12-2008 10:56
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Tail
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 12-12-2008 12:47
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Indeed
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-12-2008 19:45
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Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
Now I created an artificial environment to take a better photo of the specimen stored in alcohol - just to show how it looks like. Also taken some microscopy-images using image stacking: maybe possible to ID on species level?
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-12-2008 19:46
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Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
head is very characteristic:
pwalter attached the following image:  [151.7Kb] Edited by pwalter on 12-12-2008 19:50 |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-12-2008 19:48
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Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
Tail:
pwalter attached the following image:  [130.04Kb] Edited by pwalter on 12-12-2008 19:51 |
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| phil withers |
Posted on 12-12-2008 22:52
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Member Location: Lyon, France Posts: 521 Joined: 04.03.08 |
From Disney's key this is Dixa dilatata |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 13-12-2008 17:52
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Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
Thank You a lot! |
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