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Nice Midge - Microtendipes - male
Copyright © 2010 Erick Adams

Nice Midge - Microtendipes - Male
East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA
August 9, 2010
Size: ~5mm

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Contributed by Erick Adams on 11 August, 2010 - 9:53pm
Last updated 19 August, 2010 - 6:38pm

Moved
Moved from Chironomini.
… John F. Carr, 19 August, 2010 - 6:38pm login or register to post comments

Right leg?
How about the right leg?

If this has a patch of backward-directed hairs on one side of the fore femur near the base of the black part and very few or no acrostichal hairs (down the midline of the thorax) it is Microtendipes. Otherwise I don't know.

Unfortunately acrostichal hairs are hard to see in photos. The dorsocentral hairs, next row out, are large and easy to see here.
… John F. Carr, 12 August, 2010 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Added the other side
The definition is light on the right front leg, but you can see a slight corona of hairs at the femora-tibia joint. I'm not sure which they belong to.
… Erick Adams, 12 August, 2010 - 8:34pm login or register to post comments

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