Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Insect from amber

Posted by pwalter on 05-12-2008 23:22
#1

Hi, this tiny (1 mm) insect was found in a part of an old jewelry - don't know where the amber was collected. I don't have an idea what it could be - or rather I have too many ideas. Head is a bit Thrips-like to me, antennae may be chalcidoid-like, legs are long and abdomen resembles female Nematocera for me - e.g. Cecidmyiidae. But can be just as well something else. No wings wisible to me - kind of on the edge of the amber :(.

Posted by pwalter on 05-12-2008 23:22
#2

Head is thrips-lijke I think

Posted by pwalter on 05-12-2008 23:28
#3

Abdomen a bit more visible here

Posted by Paul Beuk on 06-12-2008 12:48
#4

Little to go on. Perhaps a chironomid...

Posted by pwalter on 06-12-2008 18:11
#5

Thank You Paul, too bad there's no good angle to take a photo of the insect because of th amber's shape.
Walter