Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Yellow, black-striped Chironomidae?

Posted by gedra on 13-08-2010 19:26
#1

Hi, i get a lot of these midges in my moth trap these days (Oslo, Norway). Can it be ID'ed any further?

rgds
Geir

Posted by gedra on 13-08-2010 19:26
#2

Female

Posted by gedra on 13-08-2010 19:26
#3

Detail

Posted by John Carr on 25-10-2010 01:24
#4

Cricotopus; in North America it would be in subgenus Isocladius. I'm told the combination of bicolored fore tibia and bicolored abdomen is unique to Cricotopus within subfamily Orthocladiinae; white genitalia are also uncommon in the subfamily.

Edited by John Carr on 25-10-2010 01:24