Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chironomini - strange female

Posted by Lennart Bendixen on 15-03-2017 20:29
#1

Maybe I've been ignorant, but I think I've never seen sth. strange like this.

Who can explain these objects on the ventral side of the abdomen? Anything parasitic?

Body length 5-6 mm.

2016-09-12, northern Germany, Mohrkirch, garden

Posted by Lennart Bendixen on 23-03-2017 07:47
#2

maybe a fungus? no ideas?