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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 » Lestodiplosini » Lestodiplosis
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Cecidoymiidae, predatory on Grape Phylloxera - Lestodiplosis - female
Copyright © 2017 MJ Hatfield

Cecidoymiidae, predatory on Grape Phylloxera - Lestodiplosis - Female
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
July 29, 2016
Size: 1+ mm
July 20, 2016: collected 1 gall covered leaf of Wild grape, Vitis sp.

July 26, 2016: some orange fly larvae

July 29, 2016: returned from Jefferson County (Moth Week events) and there were adult gall flies in the jar
August 2, 2016: parasitoid wasp

August 19, 2016: cut open a rotty gall to orange fly larvae and a larger puparium

Batch rearing
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 11 February, 2017 - 8:05am
Last updated 2 May, 2020 - 7:57pm

Moved
Moved from Cecidomyiidi.
… MJ Hatfield, 11 February, 2017 - 3:12pm login or register to post comments

Probably Lestodiplosis
Probably Lestodiplosis
… John F. Carr, 11 February, 2017 - 2:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Although it is always good to get a better ID, some are more fun than others.
… MJ Hatfield, 11 February, 2017 - 3:16pm login or register to post comments

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