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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 18-04-2006 16:10
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 Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3346 Joined: 17.10.05 |
Could anyone please suggest family? Size around 8mm. A number of these larvae were found on April 16, 2006, under bark of a big dead Salix. I'm not even sure where the head is, it made some orientation movements with its narrow pointed end (or were these respiratory?). Location: Naro-Fominsk, Moscow region, Russia. Dmitry Gavryushin attached the following image:  [97.72Kb] Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 18-04-2006 16:10 |
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| Kahis |
Posted on 18-04-2006 16:37
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 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
Hi. The pointed end is the head. IIRC this is a Muscid larva (in rotten wood, classical maggot-shape, posterior spiracles dark & close to each other). I'm sure Iain or Paul will soon correct me and tell us why it is something else 
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 21-04-2006 11:41
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3346 Joined: 17.10.05 |
2 Kahis: thanks a lot. At least I know now where the head is... |
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| totipotent |
Posted on 21-04-2006 14:24
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 Member Location: Texas A&M University, USA Posts: 21 Joined: 10.02.06 |
Kahis wrote: I'm sure Iain or Paul will soon correct me and tell us why it is something else Kahis, I don't think you have anything to worry about - it's a Muscidae. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Black wrote: I'm not even sure where the head is, it made some orientation movements with its narrow pointed end (or were these respiratory?). Black, Nice observation work; The narrow end is the "head." Brachycerans flies don't have a head capsule, like Nematocerans do. Nematocera and Brachycera are suborders to the fly order, Diptera. The black things at the tip of the "head" are mouth hooks. the picture of the fat end shows both posterior sets of spiracles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Kahis |
Posted on 21-04-2006 16:47
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Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
I forgot to praise Black for the photographs. Well done! The combination of side & posterior view show all important details that can be seen from photographs. If only all larval pics were this good....
Edited by Kahis on 21-04-2006 16:47 Kahis |
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 05-05-2006 10:41
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3346 Joined: 17.10.05 |
Thanks to totipotent for the info and to Kahis for his compliment for quality . Hope to post more larvae pictures soon. |
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| Cranefly |
Posted on 23-11-2008 10:22
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Member Location: Shachovskaya Posts: 647 Joined: 17.09.08 |
Megamerinidae, may be M. dolium |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 24-11-2008 09:51
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Gallery!
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 24-11-2008 19:43
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3346 Joined: 17.10.05 |
Many thanks Cranefly - zum Befehl Paul |
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