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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
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midge emerging from sawfly-like cocoon - female
Copyright © 2016 Michael W. Palmer

midge emerging from sawfly-like cocoon - Female
Blue River, Lane County, Oregon, USA
March 25, 2016
I am assuming this is a Cecidomyid 'pine pitch midge'. The most common overstory trees were Calocedrus decurrens and Pseudotsuga menziesii
Collection 1053.3

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Contributed by Michael W. Palmer on 29 March, 2016 - 2:30pm
Last updated 13 May, 2016 - 9:15pm

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John S. Ascher, 30 March, 2016 - 8:36pm login or register to post comments

Cecidomyiidi
This belongs to supertribe Cecidomyiidi. The cocoon may be a gall. Can you ID the understory shrub?
… John F. Carr, 29 March, 2016 - 7:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Shrub
The structure was arrched to a lichen, and didn't resemble plant material. However the shrub was a leafless Oemleria, just beginning to bloom.

Why not
http://bugguide.net/node/view/182815
?
… Michael W. Palmer, 29 March, 2016 - 7:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Cecidomyiidi
Upon examining the specimen, R. J. Gagné couldn't do better than "undet. Cecidomyiidi, a female".
… Charley Eiseman, 13 May, 2016 - 9:17pm login or register to post comments

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