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Nice Diptera larva (now pupa), leaf litter, Hungary
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Hi, this one was in leaf-litter, birch-forest, NE Hungary, february. What family could this belong to?
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'Round 7 mm long.
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They grow up so quickly... Smile I hope this is the pupa, not just the dead larva:
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If it's a puparium, it is Cecidomyiidae, isn't it?
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I think I remember seeing such pupae before, which I reared and they turned out to beLauxaniidae.
 
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It is definitely not a Cecidomyidae, for it has a well developed head-skeleton.
 
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atylotus wrote:
It is definitely not a Cecidomyidae, for it has a well developed head-skeleton.


Very likely Lauxaniidae
 
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