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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » Dung Flies (Scathophagidae) » Scathophaginae » Gimnomera » Gimnomera cerea
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Seed capsule feeder, Pedicularis - Gimnomera cerea
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Seed capsule feeder, Pedicularis - Gimnomera cerea
Magelssen Bluff Park, Rushford, Fillmore County, Minnesota, USA
May 22, 2021
Internal feeder in seed capsules of lousewort / wood betony, Pedicularis canadensis. The current image shows the seed capsule (arrow) that is inhabited by the larva pictured in this series. I opened several capsules and each one contained a larva.

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Contributed by John van der Linden on 22 May, 2021 - 10:46pm
Last updated 4 June, 2021 - 12:15am

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Immature Stages.
… John van der Linden, 4 June, 2021 - 12:15am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Frit Flies. At first I thought this was a chloropid, based on the fleshy appendages on its posterior (see comments here). But now I wonder if it might be Gimnomera cerea, the scathophagid Charley Eiseman wrote about on his blog here:

Bugtracks | Life Lurking in Lousewort

Charley has reared a chloropid from Pedicularis

but it was only 1.5mm long; the larva shown in the current series is significantly larger than that, so I'm guessing they're not the same thing. See also p. 600-601 in
Eiseman, C. 2020. Further Nearctic rearing records for phytophagous muscoid flies (Diptera: Anthomyiidae, Scathophagidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 122(3):595-603.
… John van der Linden, 3 June, 2021 - 10:29pm login or register to post comments

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