Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Identification family
Posted by De Sanctis on 24-10-2010 19:58
#1
October 2010, Italy (Sicily)
Posted by De Sanctis on 24-10-2010 20:03
#2
other photo
Posted by ChrisR on 24-10-2010 20:12
#3
Looks like a cecidomyid midge :)
Posted by rvanderweele on 24-10-2010 20:21
#4
I have almost as much with nematocera as with calypterates, so I should keep my mouth shut...yet...I thought about Chironomidae, a male
Posted by De Sanctis on 24-10-2010 20:39
#5
Lenght is 2,5 mm
Posted by ChrisR on 24-10-2010 21:18
#6
Ruud is probably correct - I should stay well away from anything midgy :D
Posted by rvanderweele on 24-10-2010 21:36
#7
Yes, m8, the distance between Tachinidae and these nematocera is simply too big ;-)
I've got to say that I caught in the afternoon a little diptera in the garden and believed it to be a small Platypezidae. Under the microscope it appeared to be a simuliidae! I never caught one in this part of the Netherlands.
Posted by John Carr on 24-10-2010 22:28
#8
This is a male Chironomidae, maybe subfamily Orthocladiinae (short front legs, no M-Cu crossvein as far as I can tell).