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Stem borer, Gentiana - Melanagromyza gentianivora
Copyright © 2018 John van der Linden

Stem borer, Gentiana - Melanagromyza gentianivora
Upper Iowa River Wildlife Management Area, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
11/29/17 Puparia in stems of gentian, Gentiana sp.:



Batch rearing

January 2018 Rearing container brought indoors (I'm impatient)

2/16/18 Adult (shown here)

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Contributed by John van der Linden on 19 February, 2018 - 10:48am
Last updated 19 July, 2020 - 3:23pm

Moved
Moved from Melanagromyza.

It would be great to have higher resolution photos of the adult and puparium of this species for the paper as well...
… Charley Eiseman, 10 December, 2019 - 9:15am login or register to post comments

Williams (1999)
reports rearing a Melanagromyza sp. from overwintered bottle gentian stems. To my knowledge that is the first report of this species.

Williams, Andrew H. Fauna overwintering in or on stems of Wisconsin prairie forbs. In Springer, Joseph T. (ed.) / Proceedings of the Sixteenth North American Prairie Conference
(1999), pp. 156-161.
… John van der Linden, 22 December, 2018 - 12:05am login or register to post comments

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