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Bugs Mating - male - female
Copyright © 2009 Tracy Palmer

Bugs Mating - Male Female
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
April 16, 2009
Found on Elderberry.

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Contributed by Tracy Palmer on 26 April, 2009 - 8:55pm
Last updated 29 April, 2009 - 5:57pm

Probably Leia
Hi all

These are probably Leia spp. Unfortunately hard to confirm without a clear wing shot. It'd be great to have the specimens if they were collected, as many species in this genus are described from either males or females and there is undoubtably some double naming going on. As you can imagine this makes field collected mated pairs a very useful set of specimens!

Cheers

Chris
… Chris Borkent, 27 June, 2009 - 10:49pm login or register to post comments

Ooh
I may have found this, are these Isocladius Midges?
… Tracy Palmer, 26 April, 2009 - 10:55pm login or register to post comments

 
No.
They are fungus gnats, family Mycetophilidae.
… Eric R. Eaton, 26 April, 2009 - 11:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Eric
Why do so many bugs have to look so similar? ;)Confuses the heck out of me!
… Tracy Palmer, 27 April, 2009 - 8:57am login or register to post comments

 
LOL!
Me, too, most of the time. Nothing helps you learn better than researching and writing a field guide; and agreeing to identify specimens for some government project that are mostly insects you've never seen before because they are "too small." :-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 29 April, 2009 - 5:56pm login or register to post comments

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