Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Culicidae larvae

Posted by Xespok on 08-06-2007 08:26
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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.