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 unknown Limoniidae larva
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| atylotus |
Posted on 22-12-2015 13:48
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 Member Location: Amsterdam, NL Posts: 1166 Joined: 29.05.09 |
This larva was found by a colleague in a spring in the eastern part of the Netherlands on march 23, 2015. It is a relatively small larva with yellow, golden hairs, no pseudopods, a spiracular disc with 5 lobes and a short hair fringe: dorsal lobe is slightly shorter than other lobes and unpigmented, lateral lobe with darker pigmentation of 1 wide (ventral) band and a sign of a shorter dorsal stripe and ventral lobes with 2 smaller lateral stripes. But most of all the headcapsule is heavily black and almost complete. I can't find anything that matched this specimen. The headcapsule looks a bit like Libnotes, but the spiracular disc is different. There are 5 hypostomial teeth a bit like Lipsothrix with 3 equally long middle teeth and 1 smaller lateral tooth. Any suggestions? atylotus attached the following image:  [21.21Kb] Edited by atylotus on 22-12-2015 13:54 |
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| atylotus |
Posted on 22-12-2015 13:51
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Member Location: Amsterdam, NL Posts: 1166 Joined: 29.05.09 |
I have tried to photograph the spiracular disc but this was difficult. You can clearly see the pigmented lateral lobe on the right, but the ventral lobe (below) has 2 smaller stripes on both sides of the lobe. The dorsal lobe is smaller and unpigmented. All lobes have short yellowish-golden hairs.
atylotus attached the following image:  [93.9Kb] Edited by atylotus on 22-12-2015 13:53 |
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