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Photo#106568
Midge? - Erioptera tantilla

Midge? - Erioptera tantilla
Okeechobee County, Florida, USA
April 29, 2007

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Midge? - Erioptera tantilla Midge? - Erioptera tantilla

Moved
Moved from Erioptera.

Moved
Moved from Nematocera.

I don't think it's a chironom
I don't think it's a chironomid. I've never seen anything with this posture. The only thing I can think of that comes close is an anopholine mosquito.

 
Me
either. I was hoping it was a moth until I saw it on the computer.
Size ~5mm.

 
Strange.
Watch it turn out to be a crane fly:-) No, seriously, some of them are really small.

 
Yes, it is
a crane fly in Eriopterini, probably in the genus Erioptera . - Chen

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