[Taxacom] Weird fly, long mouthparts, need a family name, please

[Stephen Thorpe]

sounds like one of those wierd tipulids like Toxorhina, etc.



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From: Robin Leech <releech at telusplanet.net>
To: Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Tue, 6 July, 2010 11:33:20 AM
Subject: [Taxacom] Weird fly, long mouthparts, need a family name, please

Hi Taxacomers,

I collected a fly with most peculiar mouthparts at the 
Wagner Natural Area just west of Edmonton, Alberta.

The fly looks much like a mycetophilid, but instead 
of a normal head with small mouthparts, it has a long 
tube-like mouthpart with palpi at the end.? The tube 
is about 3+ times as long as the head is in diameter. 
The mouthpart tube is about the diameter of a femur.

Any dipterists out there care to contact me off line?
I will send you a picture of the fly taken through a 
Stereo Microscope.

Robin
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