Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Larvae Culicidae?

Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 05-01-2008 02:51
#1
Hi Larvae-forum,

This small larvae was found under wet leafs, some ~6mm
Is it a Cullicidae-larvae?

place: Amsterdam forest, on a bank next to a swamp.
date: 29-12-2007

Posted by John Bratton on 05-01-2008 12:57
#2
I don't think it is a mosquito as it doesn't have the large breathing tube on the tail. But I've no idea what family it is.

John Bratton

Posted by Paul Beuk on 05-01-2008 13:19
#3
I'd go for Ceratopogonidae.

Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 05-01-2008 13:34
#4
Thank you John and Paul :)


Posted by Cranefly on 23-03-2009 11:42
#5
Body segments without projections, and bases of setae on tubercles - looks like Forcipomyia sp.