Thread subject: Diptera.info :: fly ID help please

Posted by fleabag on 04-04-2007 14:38
#1

Hi,

Can anyone help to id this?
Found resting on canvas beside a pond in rural north Cornwall,probably about 6mm from memory.
pic taken on the 21st feb.

thankyou:)

Posted by Xespok on 04-04-2007 15:29
#2

A female Ceratopoginid midge? But could well be a strange Simuliid midge as well. These two families are very closely related.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 04-04-2007 15:40
#3

Female Simuliidae. ;)