I found some kind of laong, slimy sack under a stone inside a cold brook in the mountains. At home, under the microscope I saw that really tiny nematoceran lavae were coming out from it - freshly emeged from eggs, I think.
pwalter attached the following image:
It is the larvae of a Chironomidae, Tanypodinae for sure, but I have no idea about the species or even genus. All Chironomidae lay their eggs in a long slimy sac, which they attach to a hard subtrate at one end. They can contain numerous eggs.
Anyone have scans of the Genus Semaranga in:
1)Kanmiya, K. (1983) A systematic study of the Japanese Chloropidae (Diptera).
2) Andersson, H. (1977 Taxonomic and Phylogenetic studies on Chloropid
Dr Michael von Tschirnhaus, a leading expert on Chloropidae and Agromyzidae, died on 16 September 2025 at the age of 86. He will be greatly missed by the international community. R.I.P.
Anyone has the scan of "Harkness, R. D.; Ismay, J. W. 1976: A new species of Trachysiphonella (Dipt., Chloropidae) from Greece, associated with an ant Cataglyphis bicolor (F.) (Hym., Formicidae)
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