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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Galumnidae cf, October 2008, Hungary

Posted by Xespok on 23-10-2008 09:57

Does anyone know what this could be? Very small cc 0.5-0.8 mm. On chalk crop.

Edited by Xespok on 24-10-2008 15:01

Posted by xylo on 23-10-2008 11:41

Xespok,

Are you sure having seen six legs?!? I would guess: oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida: ?Galumnidae).

so long,
xylo

Edited by xylo on 23-10-2008 11:42

Posted by Xespok on 23-10-2008 17:38

Could well be mites. I thought of some Ptinid beetles, but they should be much larger. Honestly I can not even say which part is the head and which part is the tail. I did not collect the specimens, so did not count the legs.

Posted by Tony Irwin on 23-10-2008 20:57

These are oribatid mites, but I wouldn't like to guess which!