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Ptychoptera contaminata ? > Ptychoptera contaminata
solito de solis
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Posted on 18-11-2015 20:51
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Hey

3 different larvae of Diptera
The 1st one was catched alive and I could make pictures of it and a video clip will follow

The 2 others are 10 years old and were preserved in formaline

1st one long siphon 30 mm with siphon extended

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mentum and submentum seen from below

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tip of antenna

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hook on the anterior prolegs (3 or more ?)

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end of the last segment and the siphon all extruded with 2 tracheal gills

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the mentum with 14 teeth

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Contaminata or another Ptychopterida ?
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Edited by solito de solis on 19-11-2015 20:53
 
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Looks very much like contaminata
 
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Thanks to you Atylotus
I wish now present the 2 other organisms
I believe they are, based just on the mentum

Ptychoptera albimana and Ptychoptera lacustris (Paraptychoptera)

I think I have to open new threads ?
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