Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Prosimulini larvae ?

Posted by solito de solis on 18-03-2015 10:30
#1

HEy
That's a great deal to have the opportunity to consult this beautiful diptera website
I need an help to determinate a simuliidae larvae
It seems to be a prosimulini...but i can't go ahead (I guess it could be Stegopterna ?)
See followinh the features of this organism living in freshwater stream river
thanks for your interest to this request

rodredi.free.fr/simu/sim01.jpg

rodredi.free.fr/simu/sim02.jpg

rodredi.free.fr/simu/sim03.jpg

rodredi.free.fr/simu/sim04.jpg

rodredi.free.fr/simu/sim05.jpg

Posted by solito de solis on 18-03-2015 18:44
#2

Prosimulium mixtum ?

rodredi.free.fr/simu/simf.jpg

Edited by solito de solis on 18-03-2015 18:45

Posted by solito de solis on 19-03-2015 02:15
#3

YouTube Video

Posted by atylotus on 19-03-2015 14:25
#4

please add a photo of the head in dorsal view. In prosimulium the cephalic apotome is clearly widest before the posterior end, while in other genera it is widest near the posterior edge. The middle tooth of the mentum should also be trifid in prosimulium.

Posted by John Carr on 19-03-2015 16:21
#5

In North America larvae of Prosimulium can be separated from most others by antenna color, basal segments pale and last segment dark.

Posted by solito de solis on 22-03-2015 12:27
#6

Salut, merci for the interset you payd to my request

Here are two pictures
one of antenna, other one of head in dorsal view
rodredi.free.fr/simu/simt1.jpg

rodredi.free.fr/simu/sima1.jpg

I'll send a new picture of mentum I think it's trifid
solito de solis

Edited by solito de solis on 22-03-2015 12:28