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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 Ablabesmyia (Ablabesmyia subgenus Ablabesmyia)
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Little fly - Ablabesmyia - female
Copyright © 2006 Ed Johnson

Little fly - Ablabesmyia - Female
Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas, USA
October 17, 2006
Size: ~ 2 mm
Another tiny fly that swarms around my shop light at night. This one is about 2 mm long.
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Contributed by Ed Johnson on 17 October, 2006 - 6:18pm
Last updated 16 January, 2011 - 8:17pm

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

Moved
Moved from Midges.
… Keith Bayless, 11 November, 2008 - 4:17pm login or register to post comments

ID
The little brown spotted midges with three brown stripes on the tibiae are Ablabesmyia. Unfortunately the key to species does not include females(1) so genus is the best I can do. (I probably couldn't give species for a male either, but for females you can't even try.)
… John F. Carr, 11 November, 2008 - 4:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Subgenus
Species is still out of reach, but subgenus is probably Ablabesmyia (Ablabesmyia), if I interpret the wing spots correctly.
… John F. Carr, 24 November, 2008 - 6:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Midges.
… Keith Bayless, 7 February, 2008 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera).
… Keith Bayless, 7 February, 2008 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
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