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Black Fly larva - Prosimulium mixtum

Black Fly larva - Prosimulium mixtum
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
March 7, 2009
Size: 7mm
Dip netted from Wrangling Brook where it runs through the swamp out back.

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Black Fly larva - Prosimulium mixtum Black Fly larva - Prosimulium mixtum

Moved
Moved from Prosimulium.

Prosimulium mixtum
probably, fide John Burger.

Moved
Moved from Black Flies.

Black Fly identification key
Here's some books you may try.
NOTES ON THE SYSTEMATICS, DISTRIBUTION, AND BIONOMICS OF BLACK FLIES (DIPTERA: SIMULIIDAE) IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES

THE BLACK FLIES OF NEW YORK STATE (DIPTERA: SIMULIIDAE)

If the links don't work for some reason, go to the AFPMB literature search engine and enter Simuliidae in the title field, and Massachusetts in the text field.

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