Respected colleagues, I need a help in identification of some aquatic invertebrates. I found they under the stones in little river. Here are the photos. Thank you in advance.
It's looks to me like something between a lice and a caterpillar?
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Phyllum annelida. Polichaeta. There are better people at this than me. Hope is
It seems to be a lepidoteran larvae, but very obscure photo. It is not possible to see the details.
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The photo is a bit fuzzy, so a positive id is hard. However, I would say this is a larval hellgrammite, also called a dobsonfly. Careful handling these as they have a reputation for biting if roughly handled. Where I work, the occurrence of these organisms in a benthic macroinvertebrate sample are indicative of moderately good water quality as they are sensitive to the impacts of urbanization. Good luck.
Thank you, Christopher. Just to highlight that larvae was approximately 1 cm. Regards.
Although the image is blurry, I believe it is a firefly larva that accidentally fell on the river boulders. It is not a macrobenthos organism.
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