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 Identifying Characteristics in Culicid Larvae
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| Johanan Viljoen |
Posted on 15-04-2013 14:08
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Member Location: Richards Bay, South Africa Posts: 21 Joined: 14.11.12 |
Good Afternoon Fellow Dipterans, I am a South African insect enthusiast interested in studying Culicids. I find them to be a great interesting group of insects, and would like to be able to contribute information about them. I am raising various Culicids from larvae caught in different locations, and am preserving both a larva, and an imago of each species. However, I am a little bit fuzzy on what the most important characteristics are when identifying larvae. Could anyone tell me which features in the larvae are most important? I do not have access to top-of-the-range photography at present, so I am working on a method of photographing larvae using my flatbed scanner. I attach a photo of one of the larvae photographed in this manner. Any suggestions will be appreciated.  Thank you in advance, Johanan E. Viljoen, South Africa |
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