Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Stratiomyidae: Oplodontha?

Posted by GlamGam on 13-07-2021 11:46
#1
Hello! Please could I request some assistance with this larval specimen? Keying out, tentatively, as Oplodontha. NGR (rough) TQ 69188 76755. (Apologies for poor quality images, working with a replacement Brunel zoom stereo). Thanks!

Posted by GlamGam on 13-07-2021 11:49
#2
Ventral last segment

Posted by GlamGam on 13-07-2021 11:49
#3
Head - one set of tufts, one single setae.

Posted by atylotus on 14-07-2021 06:41
#4
No. This is Odontomyia, close to O. tigrina.

Posted by GlamGam on 14-07-2021 09:55
#5
Hiya thanks very much. In the Stubbs key, the presence of ventral or lateral head tufts takes it through to Oplodontha viridula or Odontomyia angulata/hydroleon. Is what I am seeing as 'tufts' just dense setae? Much appreciated.