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| De Sanctis |
Posted on 24-10-2010 19:58
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October 2010, Italy (Sicily)
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| De Sanctis |
Posted on 24-10-2010 20:03
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 24-10-2010 20:12
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like a cecidomyid midge 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 24-10-2010 20:21
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
I have almost as much with nematocera as with calypterates, so I should keep my mouth shut...yet...I thought about Chironomidae, a male
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| De Sanctis |
Posted on 24-10-2010 20:39
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Member Location: Posts: 59 Joined: 15.02.10 |
Lenght is 2,5 mm |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 24-10-2010 21:18
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Ruud is probably correct - I should stay well away from anything midgy 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 24-10-2010 21:36
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
Yes, m8, the distance between Tachinidae and these nematocera is simply too big ;-) I've got to say that I caught in the afternoon a little diptera in the garden and believed it to be a small Platypezidae. Under the microscope it appeared to be a simuliidae! I never caught one in this part of the Netherlands. ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 24-10-2010 22:28
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 Super Administrator Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 10646 Joined: 22.10.10 |
This is a male Chironomidae, maybe subfamily Orthocladiinae (short front legs, no M-Cu crossvein as far as I can tell). |
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