Terrestrial Chironomidae (Diptera)

Some SEM micrographs of larval morphology...

Scanning Electron Micrographs of the following species will be shown at this site as soon as possible. Only one species is currently available (P. longicrus).

Bryoind1

Travaux.gif (315 octets)

 Bryophaenocladius sp. #1
Limn_min Travaux.gif (315 octets) Limnophyes minimus (Mg.)
Pses_lon PL-head.jpg (200517 octets)

Pseudosmittia longicrus (K.)
Psesind1 Travaux.gif (315 octets)

Pseudosmittia sp. #1
Smit_cel Travaux.gif (315 octets) Smittia celtica Rossaro & Delettre
Smitt_pra Travaux.gif (315 octets) Smittia pratorum (G.)
     
   

© Yannick R. Delettre, 1984, 2000.

Species code according to: Schnell, O.A., Rieradevall, M., Granados, I. & Hanssen, O. (1999) A chironomid taxa coding system for use in ecological and palaeoecological databases. NIVA Report SNO 3710-97, Oslo.

Any help to identify the unknown species would be appreciated.

If you want to add some of your pictures on other terrestrial species,

just let me know...