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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 » Alycaulini » Neolasioptera » Neolasioptera clematidis
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gall - Neolasioptera clematidis
Copyright © 2011 Jason J. Dombroskie

gall - Neolasioptera clematidis
Algonquin Park: Peck Twp.: Whiskey Rapids Trail, Nipissing Dist., Ontario, Canada
February 5, 2005
on Clematis sp.
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Contributed by Jason J. Dombroskie on 4 January, 2011 - 9:45pm
Last updated 6 January, 2011 - 8:41pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Galls. See the "info" page--curiously, this midge was first described as a Choristoneura species.
… Charley Eiseman, 6 January, 2011 - 8:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Bizarre! I am currently writ
Bizarre! I am currently writing up my last thesis chapter dealing with a phylogeny of the Archipini, I'll see if I can fit that cool factoid in there somewhere.
… Jason J. Dombroskie, 6 January, 2011 - 11:28pm login or register to post comments

 
More info
I just checked Nomina Nearctica, and it appears that this is true for several Neolasioptera species. Maybe this is a case of two genera having the same name, rather than a midge larva being mistaken for a tortricid... I'd be interested to hear what you find out, if you pursue it. I think in the 19th century (and maybe early 1900s) there were a number of insect species described from galls without actually seeing the insect that caused them.
… Charley Eiseman, 7 January, 2011 - 7:04am login or register to post comments

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