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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) » Cecidomyiidi » Cecidomyiini » Contarinia
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Cecidomyiidae, under Asarum canadense bud scale - Contarinia
Copyright © 2021 John van der Linden

Cecidomyiidae, under Asarum canadense bud scale - Contarinia
Van Peenan Park, Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
October 9, 2021
This larva was found under a bud scale in a bud on the terminus of a wild ginger rhizome (Asarum canadense).
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Contributed by John van der Linden on 24 October, 2021 - 1:47pm
Last updated 21 February, 2022 - 10:59pm

Moved
Moved from Gall Midges and Wood Midges.
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Contarinia sp.
Det. Ray Gagné, autumn 2021 (specimen examined and deposited in USNM)
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