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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies (Bibionomorpha) » Fungus Gnats and Gall Midges (Sciaroidea) » Ditomyiidae » Symmerus
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6007713 Sciarid or Cecidomyid? - Symmerus - female
Copyright © 2006 Rob Curtis

6007713 Sciarid or Cecidomyid? - Symmerus - Female
McLaughry Springs FP, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 29, 2006
Size: ~1/4"
ovipositing on log

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6007713 Sciarid or Cecidomyid? - Symmerus - female 6007714 - Symmerus 6007714 - Symmerus
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Contributed by Rob Curtis on 31 July, 2006 - 2:27pm
Last updated 5 November, 2010 - 6:46pm

Moved
Moved from Platyura.
… v belov, 5 November, 2010 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Predatory Fungus Gnats.
… Beatriz Moisset, 21 September, 2010 - 7:26am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Fungus Gnats.
… Chuck Entz, 29 April, 2007 - 9:37am login or register to post comments

Not a mycetophilid, but a ker
Not a mycetophilid, but a keroplatid -- probably Platyura sp.

Some common names:
Keroplatidae -- Predatory fungus gnats
Mycetophilidae -- Fungus gnats
Sciaridae -- Black fungus gnats
… Neal Evenhuis, 29 April, 2007 - 3:15am login or register to post comments

It looks more
like fungus gnat, Mycetophilidae. - Chen
… Chen Young, 31 July, 2006 - 9:54pm login or register to post comments

 
That's odd. I had put Fungus
That's odd. I had put Fungus Gnat down as common name, but wrong scientific family choices.
… Rob Curtis, 31 July, 2006 - 10:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Moved
to family page.
… Chuck Entz, 1 August, 2006 - 2:21am login or register to post comments

 
Ditomyiidae
Wing vein R4 not ending in R1 so it cannot be a Platyura s. str., but a female Symmerus sp. (Sciaroidea: Ditomyiidae).

so long,
… Bjoern Rulik, 5 November, 2010 - 6:30am login or register to post comments

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