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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Non-biting Midges (Chironomidae) » Tanypodinae » Pentaneurini » Ablabesmyia » subgenus Karelia (Ablabesmyia subgenus Karelia)
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Fly with mites? - Ablabesmyia - female
Copyright © 2006 Machele White

Fly with mites? - Ablabesmyia - Female
Lady Lake, Lake County, Florida, USA
March 23, 2006
Size: 3mm
These images did not turn out so well, but was hoping it might be enough to get an ID.

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Contributed by Machele White on 23 March, 2006 - 9:53am
Last updated 2 March, 2012 - 1:39pm

Moved
Moved from Ablabesmyia.
… tom murray, 24 November, 2008 - 8:46pm login or register to post comments

Thank you
very much for the help.
… Machele White, 12 November, 2008 - 4:59am login or register to post comments

Ablabesmyia female
This must be Ablabesmyia(1), unless it's one of the new tropical species established since Roback's review of the subfamily in 1971(2).
… John F. Carr, 11 November, 2008 - 4:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Ablabesmyia (Karelia)
The spot pattern is usable to determine subgenus, at least for males but I see the same dichotomy in pictures of females that Roback(1) describes for males. The spot in the M cell is at or closer to the wing base than the dark spot at the edge of the wing, indicating Ablabesmyia (Karelia).
… John F. Carr, 24 November, 2008 - 6:37pm login or register to post comments

I agree with Eric!
What an unusual specimen, and I'm glad it is back in the guide.

But mites? These look a little like something I was hoping to identify. Now the picture I am talking about will almost certainly be frassed, but in the meantime...do you think these are mites?

… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 4 February, 2008 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

Midge.
The fly appears to be a chironomid midge, but wow, what an ornate specimen!
… Eric R. Eaton, 24 March, 2006 - 2:16pm login or register to post comments

Interesting...
Those are probably the same water mites that are phoretic on mosquitoes. I do not know what the fly is. It is a nematoceran though.
-Sean McCann


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… Sean McCann, 23 March, 2006 - 12:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
for your help Sean.
… Machele White, 24 March, 2006 - 12:32pm login or register to post comments

 
You are frassing this....
because....why? Just curious. I have seen worse images here:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 24 March, 2006 - 3:53pm login or register to post comments

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