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dipteran's pupa? => Nematocera or Rachicerus
Lennart Bendixen
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Posted on 23-05-2015 06:49
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Hi again,

is this the pupa of a dipteran at all...? I'm not sure about that. Is someone able to say sth. about it?

Length 5 mm.

2015-04-02, Germany, S-H, Mohrkirch, woodpile near a hedgerow.

Thank you!

Lennart
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It could be Athericidae pupa ?
 
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It appears to have a many-segmented antenna, indicating Nematocera or Rachicerus.
 
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Thank you! That might be a wide range, but it's much better than nothing! Rachicerus is another genus I never heard of.
 
Even Dankowicz
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Note the great similarity to Anisopodidae (also very similar to a Sylvicola pupa I've encountered):
https://diptera.i...to_id=5437
 
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