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shar	#1 Posted on 30-04-2011 21:04
Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06	Dear Forum, Is this a larva of a fly or....? The larva lost it white skin and has already turned into a pupa. gr. Shar shar attached the following image: [156.2Kb] Edited by shar on 30-04-2011 21:46


shar	#2 Posted on 30-04-2011 21:07
Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06	second picture shar attached the following image: [59.17Kb] Edited by shar on 30-04-2011 21:09


shar	#3 Posted on 30-04-2011 21:10
Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06	pupa shar attached the following image: [63.44Kb] Edited by shar on 30-04-2011 21:10


Sara21392	#4 Posted on 30-04-2011 21:20
Member Location: Posts: 1445 Joined: 07.11.10	I think this larvae of a moth, because of pseudo legs on abdomen and cocoon! Sincerely yours Sara


Sara21392	#5 Posted on 30-04-2011 21:24
Member Location: Posts: 1445 Joined: 07.11.10	Of course I think second picture is another Lepidopter, because it has a cremaster and it is chrysalid, then I guess second picture is a kind of butterfly! Sincerely yours Sara


shar	#6 Posted on 30-04-2011 21:45
Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06	Okay I thought it must me something else than a butterfly or moth. Silly me Maybe because there was a fly sitting on it. We shall see what will come out of the pupa. Thanks Sara.


Paul Beuk	#7 Posted on 01-05-2011 09:56
Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19324 Joined: 11.05.04	Looks like a parasitoid... Ichneumonoidea? Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info


Calilasseia	#8 Posted on 24-10-2011 06:15
Member Location: Near Liverpool, UK Posts: 90 Joined: 20.09.11	If the larva only has one pair of prolegs in addition to the anal claspers, then it's a larva of one of the Geometrid moths. That narrows it down to about 350 species if we're dealing with a member of the UK fauna.