Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chironomidae - Tanypodinae ...... ?
Posted by aesculus on 07-02-2008 22:44
#1
Encouraged by two recent Chironimid posts I feel like chancing my luck with the attached image and asking if anyone is bold enough to suggest a tribe or genus.
I have had it suggested that it might be a tanypod.
It was found last August in East Lincs, UK.
Posted by aesculus on 07-02-2008 22:50
#2
A quick postscript to my midge query
The background is a 2mm grid making the midge just over 6mm.
Cheers.
Posted by Tony Irwin on 08-02-2008 19:06
#3
This is very reminiscent of
Procladius, but dark-patterned wings occur in many other tanypodine genera, and occasionally in other subfamilies. To be sure of an identification, you do need to have a collected male. This is a male, but was it collected? ;)
Posted by aesculus on 08-02-2008 22:05
#4
Thank you for that Tony.
No, it was not collected and I had no expectation of getting a species ID for it. A possible genus was the most I was hoping for.
I had trawled the web and found a 'superficially similar' Tanypus image and I see that certain species have Procladius and Tanypus synonyms so it is reassuring just to have it in the same ballpark.
In this complex family I can live with a 'possible genus'.
Thanks for your help.