Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Big-eyed midge with banded wings -Norway

Posted by gedra on 29-05-2011 19:52
#1

Hi, I netted plenty of these midges outside Oslo, Norway yesterday. Habitat is undergrowth close to water. Can it be ID'ed?

rgds
Geir

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 29-05-2011 20:19
#2

May be nameable! As far as I know (but I'm ignorant in this group) there is only one Chironomid with such a band on the wing: Stenochironomus gibbus (Fabricius 1794)