Thread subject: Diptera.info :: What is this??
Posted by lagura on 12-11-2008 00:08
#1
Hi,
Can anyone tell me what this is? It looks like something emerging fom a pupa, but I really haven't clue :) As I ecall it wasn't more than a couple of millimetres. Any ideas?
The rather bad photo was taken 8 June 2008 in a forest in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Posted by pwalter on 12-11-2008 00:37
#2
Hi!
This is surely the end of a milliped :) Legs are visible. It may be possible to name a supposed family for it. I'll look after it. Funny picture :)
Best regards,
Walter
Posted by lagura on 12-11-2008 01:30
#3
Hi Walter, and thanks.
A milliped. Yes, I caan see the legs. But what's the black thing?
Yes, a funny picture :) I just wish I'd got the focus right.
Posted by pwalter on 12-11-2008 01:58
#4
Hi! The black thing is itself the milliped: the tail and the last some zonits. Here's a picture from a living specimens back-end:
Walter
Posted by Gordon on 12-11-2008 08:58
#5
Could the pinkish mass below the millipede be the work of a parasitic wasp, its cocoon?
Posted by pwalter on 12-11-2008 10:54
#6
I heard of the fly Eginia ocypterata to parasite millipeds, but never seen one, don't know how they sould look like...