Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Images from Japan. What Nematocera family 4?
Posted by Xespok on 06-10-2005 10:21
#1
Another one which looks a little bit like a female Chironomid midge, but rather could eaily be something like a male Mycetophilidae.
Posted by Gerard Pennards on 06-10-2005 11:31
#2
This is Chironomidae indeed!
Greetings
Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-10-2005 11:38
#3
You can tell by the way the fore legs are held, quite charcteristic for Chironomidae, though occasionally you will see others doing the same.
Posted by Xespok on 06-10-2005 16:17
#4
Thx.
With this one the hunched-back appeance and the relatively wide abdomen is quite odd.
(The wide abdomen actually makes it unlikely that this is a male individual.)