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Biting Midge - Sphaeromias longipennis - female
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Biting Midge - Sphaeromias longipennis - Female
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 30, 2012
Size: 6.5mm

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Biting Midge - Sphaeromias longipennis - female Biting Midge - Sphaeromias longipennis - female
Contributed by tom murray on 1 July, 2012 - 11:01am
Last updated 4 July, 2012 - 11:21am

Female
The male of this species is smaller and has smaller claws. In America the only male Ceratopogonidae with large claws are in genus Allohelea.
… John F. Carr, 4 July, 2012 - 10:24am

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