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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies (Bibionomorpha) » Fungus Gnats and Gall Midges (Sciaroidea) » Gall Midges and Wood Midges (Cecidomyiidae) » Gall Midges (Cecidomyiinae) » Cecidomyiidi » Monarthropalpus » Boxwood Leafminer (Monarthropalpus flavus)
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Monarthropalpus flavus
Copyright © 2015 Even Dankowicz

Monarthropalpus flavus
Champaign County, Illinois, USA
April 6, 2015
These are not all the same individual, but are all the same brood from the same clump of boxwood bushes.

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Monarthropalpus flavus Monarthropalpus flavus Monarthropalpus flavus - male Monarthropalpus flavus Monarthropalpus flavus Monarthropalpus flavus sign on boxwood leaves - Monarthropalpus flavus
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Contributed by Even Dankowicz on 25 June, 2015 - 9:03pm
Last updated 26 June, 2015 - 7:37am

Moved
Moved from "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera).
… John F. Carr, 26 June, 2015 - 7:37am login or register to post comments

Cecidomyiidi
The adult is Cecidomyiidi, so consistent with your ID.
… John F. Carr, 26 June, 2015 - 6:35am login or register to post comments

 
host
Do you think the host plant is enough to get a species ID?
… Even Dankowicz, 26 June, 2015 - 7:15am login or register to post comments

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