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Larve
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2018 4:36 pm
by vasselle
Hello everyone.
An observation of a larva found in a river water sample.
The larva is about 5 mm long.
Photo 1.
Plan 4 X fond noir.
Pano de 15 vues.
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Plan 10 X fond noir.
Empilement de 21 vues.
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Photo 3.
Plan 10 X fond noir.
Empilement de 18 vues.
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Photo 4.
Plan 20 X fond clair.
Empilement de 29 vues.
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Cordialement seb
Re: Larve
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2018 10:11 pm
by Aenima
Re: Larve
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2018 6:01 am
by 75RR
Great detail!
Tried unsuccessfully to id it. Anyone know what it is?
Re: Larve
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:54 am
by GaryB
Excellent!
Re: Larve
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:11 pm
by vasselle
thank you all.
And here are 4 new pictures.
Photo 5.
plan 20 X fond clair.
Empilement de 8 vues.
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Photo 6.
Plan 20 X fond clair.
Empilement de 10 vues.
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Photo 7.
Plan 20 X fond clair.
Empilement de 11 vues.
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Photo 8.
Plan 20 X fond clair.
Empilement de 24 vues.
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Cordialement seb
Re: Larve
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:51 pm
by SunshineLW
DUDE! Legit!
Re: Larve
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 4:08 am
by actinophrys
Seb, an interesting find and nicely shown.
75RR, this is an immature fly. The problem IDing it is that it is not strictly a larva but a pupa, as shown by the developing wings, and these can look a fair bit different. I do not know a general guide, but this one looks a lot like pictures of Ceratopogonidae (punkies, no-see-ums, or biting midges), which share the same sort of abdominal spines and forward projections.
Re: Larve
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:22 pm
by vasselle
Thank you all.
Thanks a lot actinophrys for the explanations because I did not know at all what it was
Cordialement seb
Re: Larve
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:26 am
by 75RR
actinophrys wrote:
75RR, this is an immature fly. The problem IDing it is that it is not strictly a larva but a pupa, as shown by the developing wings, and these can look a fair bit different. I do not know a general guide, but this one looks a lot like pictures of Ceratopogonidae (punkies, no-see-ums, or biting midges), which share the same sort of abdominal spines and forward projections.
Thanks actinophrys, had not allowed for an intermediate stage. I imagine a sequence of drawings from egg through larva through pupa would be handy.
In the meantime found this:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... in_Germany
