BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Leuctra (needle flies)

Date: 15 May 2004
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 15/05/2004[A]
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State: Female imago
Record Summary: on plastic garden table
Identification Notes: Whorl of tiny hairs at end of each antennal segment.
Wing length 5mm.
Subgenital plate with two converging lobes separated by narrow gap, hairy and heavily sclerotised, so hard to see.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Dorsal - close-up - magnified 500 by 272 pixels
naked eye photograph Dorsal - close-up - magnified 294 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Dorsal - magnified 271 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Head, thorax - dorsal - magnified 475 by 500 pixels

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