Thread subject: Diptera.info :: two ambers with 4 animals

Posted by mwkozlowski on 15-11-2007 13:06
#1

today I made with my students some amber investgation; attached four pictures. Am I correct with my expectation about the identity of these flies et al?
(1) a dolichopodid male and ceratopogonid male
(2) smaller ceratopogogonid enlarged
(3) a grooup of three: a spider (web or ground) a dolichopodid and a larva
(4) enlarged a larva of probably beetle (between a grub and leaf beetle)

Edited by mwkozlowski on 15-11-2007 13:08

Posted by mwkozlowski on 15-11-2007 13:09
#2

pic. 2

Posted by mwkozlowski on 15-11-2007 13:09
#3

pic3

Posted by mwkozlowski on 15-11-2007 13:10
#4

pic4

Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-11-2007 13:24
#5

I think you are right on all counts but I think the ceratopogonid probably is a chironomid. I'd say the beetle larvae is (near?) Chrysomelidae.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 15-11-2007 15:32
#6

the spider seems to be a mygalomorph - a small one.

Posted by Igor Grichanov on 15-11-2007 16:06
#7

I agree regarding Dolis

Posted by von Tschirnhaus on 16-11-2022 14:42
#8

Pic. 2 is a chronomid: look at the scutellum which has a central longitudinal ridge, absent in Ceratopogonidae. And the thorax is arched over the head.