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 Culicidae larvae
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| crex |
Posted on 07-06-2007 17:07
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 Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
Location: Aprox 30 km N of Stockholm, Sweden Date: 2007-JUN-06 Habitat: Very small puddle on a meadow Substrate: Water I got a tip that this is stage IV Culicidae larvae. Could this statement be confirmed or rejected!? crex attached the following image:  [111.33Kb] Edited by crex on 08-06-2007 09:03 |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 08-06-2007 07:21
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2092 Joined: 26.04.07 |
This post must be posted in "Eggs, Larvae, Pupae". |
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| Xespok |
Posted on 08-06-2007 08:26
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 Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
And also pleas restrict the use of the word nymph to a larval stage that largely resembles the adult. In holometabolous insects (like Diptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and a few others) the larvae do look very different from the adults, therefore they should be called larvae. In the hemimetabolous insects as well as in many other Arthropod higher taxa the immature animals look very much like a small adult creatures, so the larval stages are called nymphs. (Heteroptera, Dictyoptera, Araneae, Collembola etc..) I think these are indeed Culicid larvae, but I can not tell you more. Gabor Keresztes Japan Wildlife Gallery Carpathian Basin Wildlife Gallery |
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