Flying Insect Id Please (1 Viewer)

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mdb2

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• Apr 16, 2015

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Hi I noticed several of these on the local church wall whilst doing Lichen, taken about 3 weeks ago sunny day. please help.
kind regards mike

 

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ApusApus

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• Apr 16, 2015

• #2

Possibly a Ptychoptera species.


Shane

 

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salticus

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• Apr 16, 2015

• #3

I'm not a fly expert but I thought with those feathery antennae it had to be a chironomid midge.

 

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mdb2

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• Apr 17, 2015

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Thanks Shane, and salticus I believe your very close. Couldn't see the trees for the wood. I have found it in INSECTS ( Michael Chinery) page 195
Chaoborus crystallinus
Many thanks Mike

 

Ficedula

velico ergo sum

• Apr 17, 2015

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mdb2 said:

Thanks Shane, and salticus I believe your very close. Couldn't see the trees for the wood. I have found it in INSECTS ( Michael Chinery) page 195
Chaoborus crystallinus
Many thanks Mike

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This is a not Chaoboridae, although little can be seen in your photo enough detail is there to be confident that this is not C. crystallinus or other members of this family. It is one of the Chironomidae but there are hundreds of them, only one of which is included in Chinery, and yours is not that either. Need to slide-mount specimen and examine terminalia under high power to have any probability of accurate identification.

 

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