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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) » Winnertziinae » Heteropezini » Miastor » Miastor metraloas

Species Miastor metraloas

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Miastor metraloas (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) male. In dorsal view. - Miastor metraloas - male Gall Midge - Miastor metraloas - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))
Infraorder Bibionomorpha (Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies)
Superfamily Sciaroidea (Fungus Gnats and Gall Midges)
Family Cecidomyiidae (Gall Midges and Wood Midges)
Subfamily Winnertziinae
Tribe Heteropezini
Genus Miastor
Species metraloas (Miastor metraloas)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Miastor metraloas Meinert 1864
Miastor americana Felt 1907
Identification
Tarsi with only four tarsomeres and wings with reduced venation. Most Cecidomyiidae have five tarsomeres, usually with the first short and hard to distinguish. A few species have two or three.
Range
Northeast USA, also widespread in Palaearctic region
Habitat
The BugGuide photo was reared from larvae "living in rotting Black Birch bark, in a swampy lowland." Larvae are most often found in rotting birch, but sometimes in other trees.(1)
Works Cited
1.Pupal paedogenesis in the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) 3–A reclassification of the Heteropezini
I. J. Wyatt. 1967. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London.
Contributed by John F. Carr on 19 December, 2013 - 2:32pm
Last updated 31 December, 2019 - 3:40pm

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