Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Flightless Tipulimorph from USA

Posted by Gordon on 30-12-2008 10:15
#1

Hi Folks, this arrived in my inbox this morning, the email and the image, can anybody say any more about it.

Gordon,
I found your website while searching for the identity of an insect. I am a naturalist in a small nature center in Northern Indiana and I'm pretty familiar with insects. This one has me a little stuck, and I'm not even sure what order to search. After checking out the BugGuide website I started to think that maybe the insect is a mecopteran. Then I found your website and thought that you might know this insect. I'll attach two pictures. I found the insect crawling on the sidewalk on a winter day (30degreesF), but it may have been displaced from a heated storage room where I had been working nearby.

Posted by Tony Irwin on 30-12-2008 11:09
#2

Looks like Chionea

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 30-12-2008 12:04
#3

certainly this is Chionea sp. (Limoniidae)

Posted by Gordon on 31-12-2008 09:27
#4

So thanks are due to Tony and Jorge. I have passed the info on to the gentleman in question which has made him happy.

Posted by Chen Young on 15-01-2009 20:08
#5

This one is Chionea scita based on the size of the antennae.