Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fungus larvae - moth or beetle?

Posted by ebbek on 16-09-2014 20:30
#1

Here is a picture from SW Sweden today. Which insect larvae lives in Ganoderma applanatum - maybe a moth?

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Krister

Edited by ebbek on 17-09-2014 10:22

Posted by ebbek on 17-09-2014 05:55
#2

I have got the suggestion in a swedish forum that it also might be a larvae og tipulidae. Does anybody know if it is a moth or a tipulidae?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 17-09-2014 07:13
#3

There appears to be frass on top of the fungus and that would suggest to me a 'chewing' larva. So probably Lepidoptera, perhaps Coleoptera. If I remember correctly, I once collected such a fungus and reared some tachinid flies from it.

Posted by ebbek on 17-09-2014 07:28
#4

Ok - thanks! If I go there again I will bring it home and see if I can get the answer.

Krister