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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) » Lasiopteridi » Lasiopterini » Lasioptera » Lasioptera lorrainae
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Cecidomyiidae on Mountain Mint - Lasioptera lorrainae
Copyright © 2017 MJ Hatfield

Cecidomyiidae on Mountain Mint - Lasioptera lorrainae
Mike's Road Ditch Prairie, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
July 7, 2017
July 7, 2017: collected galls on Mountain Mint, Pycnanthemum virginianum, in a prairie remnant. Shipped most of the galls to Dr. R. Gagné who replied: "the larvae appear to be a Lasioptera ... and similar to a species we have here that forms a gall on twiglets of Pycnanthemum.
October 6, 2017: gall was covered in fungus so opened it to fly larvae, only one of which was alive
May 13, 2018: 1 live wasp

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Cecidomyiidae on Mountain Mint - Lasioptera lorrainae Cecidomyiidae on Mountain Mint, larvae - Lasioptera lorrainae
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 2 November, 2017 - 8:09pm
Last updated 15 March, 2021 - 2:05pm

Moved
Moved from Lasioptera.

Listed among the paratypes: "4 larvae, P. viginianum, Mike’s Rd Ditch Prairie, Winneshiek Co., Iowa, VII-17, 2017, M.J. Hatfield."
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