Figure a1 :  General view of larvae of Limoniidae. Side view.
                     1 -- Metalimnobia quadrimaculata L.
                     2 -- Discobola annulata L.
                     3 -- Ula bolitophila Loew.
                     4 -- Epiphragma ocellaris L.
                     5 -- Lipsothrix errans Walk.
                     6 -- Elephantomyia sp.
                     (After KRIVOSJEINA, 1969.)



Figure a2 :  Phalacrocera replicata L.,  Cylindrotomidae, larva, side view.
After HENNIG, 1948-1952, magnified.


Figure a3 :  Larva of Trichocera sp.,  Trichoceridae. Dorsal view.
After KRIVOSJEINA, 1969.



Figure a4 :  Protoplasa fitchii Osten-Sacken,  Tanyderidae,  larva, side view.
After HENNIG, 1948-1952, magnified.



Figure a5 :  Larvae of Ctenophora  tricolor LOEW. [Tipilomorpha-Tipulidae] in pale wood of lime tree.
(After KRIVOSJEINA, 1969)



In coarse dark wood live the larvae of Symmerus  annulatus MEIG. [Bibionomorpha-Ditomyiidae] and Epiphragma  ocellaris L. [Tipulomorpha-Limoniidae]. See next Figure.

Figure a6 :  Larva of Epiphragma  ocellaris L. [Tipulomorpha-Limoniidae] in dark wood of lime tree.
(After KRIVOSJEINA, 1969)



In totally soft wood, in wood rot of hollows [in wood] or of tree-stumps develop larvae of Dictenidia  bimaculata L. [Tipulomorpha-Tipulidae]. In damp dark-brown pine wood develop larvae of Sciaridae [Bibionomorpha] :  Trichosia sp. (in wood of fir-tree) and Scythropochroa  quercicola WINN. (in wood of silver fir). In pieces of damp dark wood or in tree-stumps live larvae of Pachyneura sp. [Tipulomorpha-Pachyneuridae]. See next Figure.

Figure a7 :  Larvae of Pachyneura sp. [Tipulomorpha-Pachyneuridae].
(After KRIVOSJEINA, 1969)


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