Thread subject: Diptera.info :: a chronomid (?) male with plumose front legs

Posted by mwkozlowski on 06-08-2010 08:24
#1
this is a bad picture, only legs are in focus... but I have never seen anything like this before...

Posted by Jan Willem on 06-08-2010 09:31
#2
Certainly looks like a chironomid. I have never seen anything like this either. Very nice :).
If I remember correctly only members of the subfamily Chironominae hold the front legs in the air like this.

Posted by Tony Irwin on 06-08-2010 14:08
#3
A number of Chironomus species (plumosus, prasinus, annularius) have a long "beard" on their front tarsi.