Thread subject: Diptera.info :: unknown larva

Posted by Lennart Bendixen on 06-02-2017 22:09
#1

Who knows which family this is? I have no idea about it.

Length 3 mm.

2016-07-17, northern Germany, garden, stack of cut grass

Posted by Paul Beuk on 07-02-2017 09:02
#2

Does not look like Diptera to me. I suspect a beetle larva.

Posted by Lennart Bendixen on 07-02-2017 09:26
#3

That would be interesting too, of course ;)
Thanks!

Posted by atylotus on 07-02-2017 12:35
#4

The first thing that came to my mind was that I saw the dorsal side of Forcipomyia pupa. But then I saw something cuticular at the left side which may be the head? It struck me that the right side wasn't annular, but the left side is.

Edited by atylotus on 07-02-2017 12:36