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Big-eyed midge with banded wings -Norway
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Posted on 29-05-2011 18:52
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 Hi, I netted plenty of these midges outside Oslo, Norway yesterday. Habitat is undergrowth close to water. Can it be ID'ed?

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 May be nameable! As far as I know (but I'm ignorant in this group) there is only one Chironomid with such a band on the wing: Stenochironomus gibbus (Fabricius 1794)
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