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You must login to post a message. 15.08.25 10:15 For those specialists not active on Facebook, I just ask to consider to join our group on FB. Please, be aware that it is not necessary at all to be active on FB outside the diptera group. Actually, n
15.08.25 10:13 We received requests to get permission to ask for ID in our Facebook group, https://www.facebo
ok.com/groups/1798 95332035235/ Until now we pointed to diptera.info, but since Paul's passing we not 23.06.25 18:10 If you have some spare money, there is a copy (together with keys to pupae and larvae) for sale by Hermann L. Strack, Loguivy Plougras, France
23.06.25 11:18 Appreciate it, Tony Irwin! I got the hint to use the key next to Langton and Pinder key for females of Chironomidae. So no specific queries, except the keys...
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19.06.25 15:33 I have the hard copy book, if you have any specific queries, but I'm not scanning the 500+ pages!
02.06.25 18:26 Anyone has "Chironomidae of the Holarctic region. Keys and diagnoses. Part 3. Adult Males Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement 34"?
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28.05.25 12:25 Is someone able to share with me "A key to the Russian species of the genus Coenosia"?
08.05.25 18:22 I have
03.05.25 08:35 Does someone has a scan of Nartshuk E.P. 2003. Key to families of Diptera (Insecta) of the fauna of Russian and adjacent countries. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute Vol. 294: 1-252 for me?
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Small (1 to 6 mm. ) dark brown flies with a scuttling (fast, scrambling, jerking) habit of running very fast across a surface rather than flying. Upright posture, hump-backed appeararance.
Also (and closer)
Strong head bristles (setae).
Very characteristic wing venation. Several short, strong, thickened wing-veins crowded basally. The rest are weak. See photo
One colour usually dark brown (some yellow).No pattern.
Femora laterally flattened.