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Photo#168754
Copyright © 2008
Gary McDonald
unknown tiny wasp
Aromas, San Benito County, California, USA
February 8, 2008
Size: ~2mm
Found this tiny wasp on the lip of a large flower pot in our garden. (live oak/chaparral habitat).
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Contributed by
Gary McDonald
on 8 February, 2008 - 2:13pm
Last updated 16 November, 2010 - 5:46pm
Micromyinae
Gary, this fly is not a wasp. I would place it in the Micromyinae (Cecidomyiidae). The wing veination has an unforked M vein, and the Cu vein is forked. There are 12 long necked flagellomeres.
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John Plakidas
, 28 October, 2012 - 7:17am
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Moved
Moved from
Lestremiinae
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John F. Carr
, 16 November, 2010 - 5:46pm
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Moved
Moved from
Scales and Mealybugs
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Martin Hauser
, 2 June, 2010 - 6:46pm
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Looks like a male scale insec
Looks like a male scale insect (they have only 2 wings like Diptera
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Martin Hauser
, 8 February, 2008 - 2:39pm
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Gall midge?
I'm a bit intimidated to disagree with you on this, but this looks all the world like a cecidomyiid to me. All the male coccoids I've seen have been more stout and without the whorls of setae on the antennae.
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Tymon Mazdak
, 8 February, 2008 - 3:11pm
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Always disagree! It is funny
Always disagree! It is funny because the first male scale I got was brought to me a friend from Borneo and he told me he found a strange fly. And I saw the halteres and agreed with him and told him it must be a very strange Cecidomiid fly... but it was just too odd, and now I collected many myself, and all of them have the hairy antenna!
I am relatively sure about the ID, at least as sure as you coan be from a pic...
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Martin Hauser
, 8 February, 2008 - 3:37pm
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Hello, I don't think this is
Hello, I don't think this is a male scale insect. I don't think they have ocelli (we can clearly see the 3 ocelli on the head), also, the way it stands doesn't look for me like a coccoid.
Other than that, I am don't know much about other groups of insects, so I can only eliminate the possibility of a scale insect.
The best way would be to see their claws, scale insects only have one claw
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thecochenille
, 2 June, 2010 - 2:02pm
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Yep, I now completely agree w
Yep, I now completely agree with you... I guess it might be a Sciaridae, but I am not sure...
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Martin Hauser
, 2 June, 2010 - 6:39pm
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