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 Cecidomyiid from Lipara gall
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| John Bratton |
Posted on 24-01-2018 12:17
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Member Location: Menai Bridge, North Wales, UK Posts: 654 Joined: 17.10.06 |
Emerged sometime in 2016 from Lipara lucens galls collected 24 March 2016, Humber estuary foreshore, Winteringham, England. The specimen is in alcohol..
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| John Bratton |
Posted on 24-01-2018 12:18
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Member Location: Menai Bridge, North Wales, UK Posts: 654 Joined: 17.10.06 |
Just the family would be a help please, so I know whether to attempt an id.
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 24-01-2018 12:27
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7325 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Cecidomyiidae. Five species are recorded from Lipara galls in Nartshuk and Andersson (Frit Flies of Fennoscandia and Denmark) see https://books.goo...mp;f=false
Edited by Tony Irwin on 24-01-2018 12:31 Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| John Bratton |
Posted on 24-01-2018 12:36
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Member Location: Menai Bridge, North Wales, UK Posts: 654 Joined: 17.10.06 |
Many thanks. I hope we have a cecidomyiid expert on Diptera.info. John |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 24-01-2018 13:47
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 Super Administrator Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 10541 Joined: 22.10.10 |
I think it belongs to supertribe Lasiopteridi. |
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| John Bratton |
Posted on 26-01-2018 17:29
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Member Location: Menai Bridge, North Wales, UK Posts: 654 Joined: 17.10.06 |
Thank you. Of the species listed in Fauna Ent Scand (see Tony Irwin's reply above), the only Lasiopteridi on the British list is Lasioptera arundinis. But I'm not sure that is strong enough evidence to say my specimen is L. arundinis. |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 26-01-2018 21:05
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Super Administrator Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 10541 Joined: 22.10.10 |
It is not Lasioptera because vein R5 reaches to near wingtip. |
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| John Bratton |
Posted on 26-01-2018 21:11
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Member Location: Menai Bridge, North Wales, UK Posts: 654 Joined: 17.10.06 |
Thanks. So it is likely to be a species not recorded previously from Lipara galls. |
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