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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 » Tanypus » subgenus Apelopia (Tanypus subgenus Apelopia)
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Chironomid - Tanypus - female
Copyright © 2009 Kerry S. Matz

Chironomid - Tanypus - Female
Great Salt Lake Marina (N40°44.156'W112°12.730'ele4216'), Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
July 24, 2005
Other adults were found in/on salt water in the shoreline drift. The small tan sphere in front of the head is a Brine Shrimp egg.

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Contributed by Kerry S. Matz on 6 January, 2009 - 7:13pm
Last updated 8 August, 2011 - 7:30pm

Moved
Moved from Tanypus.
… John F. Carr, 8 August, 2011 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Midges.

I looked more closely at the antennae. They are many-segmented, which combined with habitat rules out anything but Tanypodinae.
… John F. Carr, 17 January, 2009 - 8:26pm login or register to post comments

Closer view?
This shows some attributes of a freshly emerged Tanypus (Apelopia). Do you have a closer shot of the head, thorax, and/or wings? The faint double row of spots after the larger brown spot on the wing could be very light versions of a distinctive feature of the genus. The pale bump on the thorax would indicate subgenus.

T. nubifer is salt tolerant and was originally described from Salt Lake, Utah.
… John F. Carr, 16 January, 2009 - 8:31pm login or register to post comments

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