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Cricotopus sp. I presume
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inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/115719341/original.jpg

I was setting up to shoot the beetle, Pharaxonotha kirschii, when this midge happened on the scene. Chironomidae, but is it Cricotopus?
 
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Cricotopus
 
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What's that on your profile picture? Are those two mites on a midge?
 
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victorengel wrote:
What's that on your profile picture? Are those two mites on a midge?


Yes, two mites on a midge.
 
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I have various observations I've identified as Cricotopus, most recently this one.
inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/122102629/original.jpg

Also this one.
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These all seem similar, but I see some differences. Are the differences enough to indicate different species? A couple others are clearly different, and I don't recall why I identified them as Cricotopus. I'm thinking now I may be wrong. Example:
inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/107467566/original.jpg

I'm doubting my ID because it's all black. It seems like there's at least some light color banding in Cricotopus. Or are there solid black ones?
 
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The black and yellow midges are Cricotopus. I don't know about the black one. Some Cricotopus are black and can not be identified by color.
 
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