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Larvae living on jelly
A gooey looking transparent insect, when I encontered it last year I thought it could be the larva of a either a fly or a neuroptera, after a bit of research it turns to be the larva of a crane fly, prior tipulid and now placed in it’s own family, Limoniidae.
The majority of species in this family have aquatic larvae, and only three recent papers makes observations of larvae living in terrestrial habitat surrounded by a mass of jelly. These observations were all very similar and on species of the same genus, Geranomyia, in Costa Rica and the Fiji, I believe this one is also Geranomyia.… Continue reading