Posted by crex on 07-06-2007 17:07
#1
Location: Aprox 30 km N of Stockholm, Sweden
Date: 2007-JUN-06
Habitat: Very small puddle on a meadow
Substrate: Water
I got a tip that this is stage IV
Culicidae larvae. Could this statement be confirmed or rejected!?
Edited by crex on 08-06-2007 09:03
Posted by Isidro on 08-06-2007 07:21
#2
This post must be posted in "Eggs, Larvae, Pupae".
Posted by Xespok on 08-06-2007 08:26
#3
And also pleas restrict the use of the word nymph to a larval stage that largely resembles the adult. In holometabolous insects (like Diptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and a few others) the larvae do look very different from the adults, therefore they should be called larvae. In the hemimetabolous insects as well as in many other Arthropod higher taxa the immature animals look very much like a small adult creatures, so the larval stages are called nymphs. (Heteroptera, Dictyoptera, Araneae, Collembola etc..)
I think these are indeed Culicid larvae, but I can not tell you more.