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Boxwood Leafminer (Monarthropalpus flavus)
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Copyright © 2017
Steve Scholnick
gall midge -
Monarthropalpus flavus
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Brookside Gardens, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
April 23, 2017
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Contributed by
Steve Scholnick
on 4 May, 2017 - 9:36pm
Last updated 13 October, 2018 - 5:48pm
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John F. Carr
, 5 June, 2018 - 2:55pm
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Monarthropalpus flavus (Cecidomyiidae)
This female appears to be the Box Wood gall midge, Monarthropalpus flavus. You can see the chitinous ovipositor that curls up at the end of the abdomen, and your specimens are the same color, bright orange. I also get them here in Allegheny Co., Pittsburgh the same time frame, late April and early May.
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John Plakidas
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John F. Carr
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