Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chironomidae fly
Posted by fghinelli on 14-02-2025 14:27
#1
Hi everybody, I found several specimens of this Chironomid near the sea in Marina di Ravenna (RA), Italy, (44.486425, 12.2860333333). It is possible identify from this picture?
Posted by fghinelli on 14-02-2025 14:28
#2
Habitat:
Posted by John Carr on 14-02-2025 15:42
#3
Telmatogeton – marine habitat and trilobed tarsomere 5.
Some of these shoreline species come out only at spring tide, so the full moon is a good time to look for them.
Edited by John Carr on 14-02-2025 15:43
Posted by fghinelli on 14-02-2025 17:06
#4
John Carr wrote:
Telmatogeton – marine habitat and trilobed tarsomere 5.
Some of these shoreline species come out only at spring tide, so the full moon is a good time to look for them.
Thank you John! Could be an interesting species?
Posted by John Carr on 15-02-2025 01:49
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Telmatogeton is known from the Mediterranean only from recently discovered larvae along the coast of Egypt. They were not assigned to a species. My suspicion is
T. japonicus has expanded its range. A native species would have been discovered earlier.
The related species
Thalassomyia frauenfeldi is widespread in the region. The fifth tarsomere of
Thalassomyia is simpler.