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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Non-biting Midges (Chironomidae) » Telmatogetoninae » Telmatogeton
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very, very weird fly from Big Sur - Telmatogeton
Copyright © 2014 Ken-ichi Ueda

very, very weird fly from Big Sur - Telmatogeton
Big Creek Reserve, Monterey County, California, USA
June 6, 2014
Size: 10 mm
One of the strangest flies I've ever seen. From head to the end of the wings this was about 10 mm. Attracted to a UV light on a grassy hill next to a cabin overlooking coastal chaparral (Ceanothus, Baccharis, coast live oak, Sambucus, etc.). Unfortunately I did not collect it, much to my current regret. If you can provide any ID help at all it would be much appreciated. Zoomable images and exact coordinates can be found at http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/726563.

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Contributed by Ken-ichi Ueda on 9 June, 2014 - 6:56pm
Last updated 8 April, 2016 - 2:32pm

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I haven't looked at these for a while. My memory is the scales identify the former genus Paraclunio, now better treated as a species group of Telmatogeton.

Kieffer's trilobatus was described with "pattes d'un jaune brunâtre" (legs brownish yellow or yellowish brown, depending on whether you ask me or Google). I have not seen an explicit comparison of the two species. It is possible that Coquillett's alaskensis was darker simply because it was from colder water.
… John F. Carr, 8 April, 2016 - 4:32pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Telmatogeton alaskensis.
… Ken-ichi Ueda, 8 April, 2016 - 2:32pm login or register to post comments

 
revised based on further feedback
See discussion at http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/726563. Telmatogeton trilobatus needs to be added to BugGuide. I also suspect http://bugguide.net/node/view/653282/bgimage is T. trilobatus.
… Ken-ichi Ueda, 8 April, 2016 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken-ichi Ueda, 9 June, 2014 - 9:52pm login or register to post comments

Maybe...
Something like this? (Just an amateur guess)(BTW, my Japanese maiden name is Ueda!)

… Yurika Alexander, 9 June, 2014 - 9:01pm login or register to post comments

 
nailed it!
Thanks so much, this was driving me nuts. So weird that it's marine, but that makes total sense given the location. Maybe we're related! We apparently both have the bug-loving gene.
… Ken-ichi Ueda, 9 June, 2014 - 9:54pm login or register to post comments

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