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 Flightless Tipulimorph from USA
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| Gordon |
Posted on 30-12-2008 10:15
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 Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
Hi Folks, this arrived in my inbox this morning, the email and the image, can anybody say any more about it. Gordon, I found your website while searching for the identity of an insect. I am a naturalist in a small nature center in Northern Indiana and I'm pretty familiar with insects. This one has me a little stuck, and I'm not even sure what order to search. After checking out the BugGuide website I started to think that maybe the insect is a mecopteran. Then I found your website and thought that you might know this insect. I'll attach two pictures. I found the insect crawling on the sidewalk on a winter day (30degreesF), but it may have been displaced from a heated storage room where I had been working nearby. Gordon attached the following image:  [79.77Kb] |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 30-12-2008 11:09
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7286 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Looks like Chionea
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 30-12-2008 12:04
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
certainly this is Chionea sp. (Limoniidae) |
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| Gordon |
Posted on 31-12-2008 09:27
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Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
So thanks are due to Tony and Jorge. I have passed the info on to the gentleman in question which has made him happy. |
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| Chen Young |
Posted on 15-01-2009 20:08
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 Member Location: Pittsburgh, PENNSYLVANIA USA Posts: 169 Joined: 25.08.05 |
This one is Chionea scita based on the size of the antennae. |
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