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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Meniscus Midges (Dixidae) » Dixella » Dixella dorsalis
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Dixidae?? - Dixella dorsalis
Copyright © 2008 Stephen Luk

Dixidae?? - Dixella dorsalis
Phyllis Rawlinson Park, Richmond Hill (N43º55'25.2"W079º23'54.5"elev.209m), York Region, Ontario, Canada
June 18, 2008
Size: 7 mm
This fly larva was scooped along with detritus from a pond edge. It preferred to stay close to water but not in it, and moved in a rapid and peculiar slinking fashion that I can only describe as being like "a lugworm moving back and forth in its u-shaped burrow'

** EDIT **
Perhaps this is a Dixid larva? Looks quite similar to this.

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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 24 June, 2008 - 11:52am
Last updated 2 November, 2009 - 8:21pm

Moved
Moved from Dixella.
… Keith Bayless, 2 November, 2009 - 8:21pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Dixidae.
… Keith Bayless, 4 December, 2008 - 3:00pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera).
… Keith Bayless, 24 June, 2008 - 1:34pm login or register to post comments

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