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Neolasioptera nodulosa - female
Copyright © 2012 Charley Eiseman

Neolasioptera nodulosa - Female
Lawrence Swamp, Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Size: 2 mm
Collected dewberry galls 1/10/2012; midge found dead in bag on 4/26/12, after this wasp had emerged:

ID confirmed by Raymond J. Gagne; specimen deposited in the national collection.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 9 August, 2012 - 8:15am

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