This looks like a mosquito but it aint got no proboscis, its fore-legs are very long and its hind legs aren't raised in the air. So what is it? It might be a Dixid (but again it might not), only the expert can tell. It was sitting on the wall at Bet Dagan presumably attracted to light.
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