Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chironomidae - Id, please

Posted by valter on 20-03-2010 17:32
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Location: Algarve, Portugal
Date:march 12, 2010
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Thanks,
valter
Edited by valter on 20-03-2010 18:03

Posted by Roger Thomason on 20-03-2010 17:51
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Not a Mosquito....Chironomidae

Posted by paqui on 05-04-2010 17:19
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female Chironominae, but I canīt say more, (best recent keys are british but just for males) regards

Posted by John Carr on 30-07-2011 00:42
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Female Chironomini.

This might be Chironomus tentans Fabricius. It resembles the female of the American sibling species C. dilutus Shobanov.

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In his revision of Chironomini, Townes (1945) wrote, "This is a large stout species with conspicuous mesoscutal stripes and dark abdomen. The male has very distinctive genitalia. Usually, the coloration and rather strongly produced middle portion of the pronotum enable one to determine female specimens."