Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Diptera pupa?
Posted by Juergen Peters on 21-01-2008 19:48
#1
Hello!
Birgit Gabriel asked me to post these photos here of a larva (size about 25 mm) she found in a dead oak near Berlin/Germany on May-19, 2007.
I could not really help her, but I vaguely thought it could perhaps be some Tipulid larva (of the wood breeding species) (??).
[EDIT: Title changed from "Diptera larva?" to "Diptera pupa?"]
Edited by Juergen Peters on 21-01-2008 20:28
Posted by Juergen Peters on 21-01-2008 19:49
#2
Another picture.
Posted by cosmln on 21-01-2008 20:09
#3
hi Jurgen,
this is already a nymph.
probably is more or less close to this:
http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=5489
anyway looks interesting, try to keep that one and see what emerge (or your friend keep that).
cosmln
Posted by Juergen Peters on 21-01-2008 20:24
#4
Hello, cosmln!
cosmln wrote:
this is already a nymph.
Ah, yes. Now that you state it... I had Xylophagids in mind, but I only thought of the larvae, which look quite different. So I had ruled that out...
try to keep that one and see what emerge (or your friend keep that).
The pics are of last May... ;)
Posted by Chen Young on 06-02-2008 17:53
#5
This one is a male pupa of crane fly in the genus either Ctenophora or Tanyptera. The large, broadly flattened, deeply crenulated margin of the breathing horns are a important character to recognize pupae of this group of crane fly.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 06-02-2008 20:44
#6
Hello, Chen!
Chen Young wrote:
This one is a male pupa of crane fly in the genus either Ctenophora or Tanyptera. The large, broadly flattened, deeply crenulated margin of the breathing horns are a important character to recognize pupae of this group of crane fly.
Many thanks! At long last the solution of this miracle... :D