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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) » Chironominae » Tanytarsini
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unknown green insect - female
Copyright © 2009 Gerardine Vargas

unknown green insect - Female
tucson, pima County, Arizona, USA
January 9, 2009
Size: 2.5 mm
This is the only image I have of one of the characteristics you mentioned for tribe ID. Not sure there is enough detail. I hope this helps.

Thanks for laying out the guidelines of important features of the insect for ID. I'll keep this in mind.

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Contributed by Gerardine Vargas on 15 January, 2009 - 7:19pm
Last updated 18 January, 2009 - 5:29pm

Moved
Moved from Chironominae.
… John F. Carr, 18 January, 2009 - 5:29pm login or register to post comments

Hairs
That's a good closeup. I hope I'll be able to turn it into an ID to genus once I get some more references. It shows what I think is the row of hairs that separates two groups of genera.
… John F. Carr, 15 January, 2009 - 8:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Hairs
Hi John,
Are you referring to what looks like might be hairs at the eye margins?
Great creature.
Lynn
… Lynn Bergen, 17 January, 2009 - 9:02pm login or register to post comments

 
Left side
The hairs are on the scutellum (the pale green structure to the right of the dark brown double trapezoid postnotum at far left).

The eyebrows (not the technical name) are useful to identify some types of midges; I don't know if they will turn out to be interesting here.
… John F. Carr, 17 January, 2009 - 9:06pm login or register to post comments

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