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 Chironomid (female)
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| Don Micro |
Posted on 24-07-2010 16:51
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 Member Location: Hasselt, Belgium Posts: 441 Joined: 13.06.10 |
Hello all. This nematocera was attracted to light in Hasselt, Belgium 23-07-2010. What I read is Mycetophilidae-tibiae should have long apical bristles but this one clearly does not. It bears a striking resemblance to the specimen on the picture on the German Mycetophilidae-page of Wikipedia and on the Dutch Wikipedia-page regarding Mycetophilidae. Its filename is Exechia concinna. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggen http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycetophilidae Now Exechia concinna is not listed in www.species.be nor www.nederlandsesoorten.nl so my specimen obviously can't be E. concinna. I'll be glad if I know if my specimen is Exechia or not? Thanks! 
Don Micro attached the following image:  [80.8Kb] Edited by Don Micro on 25-07-2010 03:01 Kim Windmolders |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 24-07-2010 16:56
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 Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5269 Joined: 17.07.08 |
This is a female Chironomid. |
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| Don Micro |
Posted on 24-07-2010 17:06
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Member Location: Hasselt, Belgium Posts: 441 Joined: 13.06.10 |
Thanks Roger. That means the picture of Exechia concinna on Wikipedia is incorrect. Kim Windmolders |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 26-07-2010 16:58
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7344 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Sadly, it's not unusual to find incorrectly named flies on websites - on the wiki/Muggen site you mention, the chaoborid is a chironomid and the cecidomyiid is a sciarid!
Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 26-07-2010 20:15
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
I already changed some of the pages linking to this exceptional Exechia. The source site of the 'chaoborid' has many dodgy ID's.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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