Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Simuliidae? 2_7_b

Posted by gdoer on 31-10-2019 00:07
#1

This specimen was collected in the sierra Nevada this past summer. It is about 1.46mm in length.

Edited by gdoer on 31-10-2019 00:08

Posted by gdoer on 31-10-2019 00:08
#2

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Posted by John Carr on 31-10-2019 00:16
#3

Similar wings have developed convergently in Chironomidae (e.g. Corynoneura and Ceratopogonidae (Leptoconops).

Posted by gdoer on 13-11-2019 23:38
#4

The head appears to be different than any of the Chironomid I have identified thus far (mostly Orthocladiinae and Chironominae)

Posted by Paul Beuk on 14-11-2019 08:38
#5

I'd say from the wing that it is Leptoconops (or very similar)