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Yellow, black-striped Chironomidae?
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 Hi, i get a lot of these midges in my moth trap these days (Oslo, Norway). Can it be ID'ed any further?

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 Cricotopus; in North America it would be in subgenus Isocladius. I'm told the combination of bicolored fore tibia and bicolored abdomen is unique to Cricotopus within subfamily Orthocladiinae; white genitalia are also uncommon in the subfamily.
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