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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Phantom Midges (Chaoboridae) » Chaoborus » subgenus Sayomyia (Chaoborus subgenus Sayomyia)
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Phantom Midge - Chaoborus - female
Copyright © 2010 Werner Eigelsreiter

Phantom Midge - Chaoborus - Female
Oliver, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada
August 12, 2010
Size: ~ 8 mm
PHANTOM MIDGE - Chaoborus genus? Attracted to lights

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Contributed by Suzanne Eigelsreiter on 29 August, 2010 - 2:24pm
Last updated 19 March, 2014 - 4:57pm

Moved
Moved from Chaoborus.
… John F. Carr, 19 March, 2014 - 4:57pm login or register to post comments

astictopus?
I suspect this is Chaoborus astictopus, which is like a less spotted version of punctipennis. I don't know of any records from as far north as B.C. It is common in northern California.
… John F. Carr, 16 June, 2013 - 10:02pm login or register to post comments

Habitat?
Do you know what kind of water body it might have come from? Temporary or permanent, with or without fish, deep or shallow.
… John F. Carr, 16 April, 2011 - 3:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Water body
The closest body of water is a small lake about 1/2 a kilometer from where the picture was taken. It is an underground fed, very muddy lake.
… Suzanne Eigelsreiter, 4 May, 2011 - 9:07am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Phantom Midges. She's trying to grow spots on her legs but is much larger than C. punctipennis.
… John F. Carr, 29 August, 2010 - 3:52pm login or register to post comments

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