Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Gnat on Fagus sylvatica -> Cecidomyiidae

Posted by Skyfliege on 16-03-2011 10:42
#1
Hello!

This is my first request in this great diptera forum. I hope that somebody can help me to identify this gnat/mosquito. It was found basking on a trunk of Fagus sylvatica in an open deciduous forest (wayside).

Location: Marburg/Hesse; Germany; March 2011

Kind regards
Stefan

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Edited by Skyfliege on 21-03-2011 19:38

Posted by Paul Beuk on 16-03-2011 11:09
#2
Gall midge (Cecidomyiidae)

Posted by Skyfliege on 16-03-2011 13:29
#3
Hello Paul,

thank you! It is a gall midge. The specie should be impossible to determine without the appropriate host plant?

Best regards
Stefan