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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Crane Flies (Tipulomorpha) » Limoniid Crane Flies (Limoniidae) » Eriopterini » Erioptera » subgenus Mesocyphona (Erioptera subgenus Mesocyphona) » Erioptera tantilla
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Midge? - Erioptera tantilla
Copyright © 2007 Jeff Hollenbeck

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

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Midge? - Erioptera tantilla Midge? - Erioptera tantilla
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Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 30 April, 2007 - 8:14pm
Last updated 17 June, 2022 - 1:46pm

Moved
Moved from Erioptera.
… Even Dankowicz, 17 June, 2022 - 1:46pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Nematocera.
… Chen Young, 21 June, 2007 - 9:36am login or register to post comments

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.
… Joe, Entomologist (in training), 30 April, 2007 - 8:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Me
either. I was hoping it was a moth until I saw it on the computer.
Size ~5mm.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 30 April, 2007 - 10:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Strange.
Watch it turn out to be a crane fly:-) No, seriously, some of them are really small.
… Eric R. Eaton, 1 May, 2007 - 3:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes, it is
a crane fly in Eriopterini, probably in the genus Erioptera . - Chen
… Chen Young, 21 June, 2007 - 9:05am login or register to post comments

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