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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Stiletto Flies (Therevidae) » Unidentified Immatures
Photo#41291
Therevidae larva
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Therevidae larva
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
January 19, 2006
Size: 20mm
Found under a log in a marshy area.
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Contributed by tom murray on 20 January, 2006 - 7:52pm
Last updated 13 December, 2011 - 10:16pm

Moved
Moved from Stiletto Flies.
… Brad Barnd, 13 December, 2011 - 5:23pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Asiloidea.
… Martin Hauser, 11 July, 2011 - 9:58am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Limoniid Crane Flies.
Thanks Matt. Here's a larger picture from my website that shows more detail. Maybe that will be enough to get it to family.
… tom murray, 17 March, 2011 - 4:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Hard to tell...
One of the characters used to diagnose these families (setae) is hard to tell, but from the picture it looks to have a spatulate cephalic rod, such as the Therevidae drawing in that link below...that is just a tentative guess.
… Matt Bertone, 18 March, 2011 - 9:33am login or register to post comments

I am going to disagree...
I think this is a therevoid, either a larva of Therevidae or Scenopinidae. Notice the secondary abdominal segmentation (characteristic of these families), lack of terminal lobes and extruded head with large cephalic rod. I also think these are therevoids...
… Matt Bertone, 17 March, 2011 - 2:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Also...
notice the spiracular arrangement - tipulids only have terminal spiracles (metapneustic) and this one clearly has prothoracic spiracles and a spiracle before the terminal end as in this drawing.
… Matt Bertone, 17 March, 2011 - 2:33pm login or register to post comments

Yes,
crane fly larva in the subfamily Limoniinae - Chen
… Chen Young, 21 January, 2006 - 9:02am login or register to post comments

 
Limoniinae
Thanks Chen, for getting it down to subfamily.
… tom murray, 21 January, 2006 - 10:10pm login or register to post comments

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