Thread subject: Diptera.info :: tiny midge

Posted by Toby on 30-04-2013 18:15
#1
on dewy grass, Sheen common,London

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IMG_5391 red midge by tobyjug5, on Flickr

Posted by John Carr on 30-04-2013 18:59
#2
Possibly Planetella, gall makers in Carex and Cyperus.

Posted by Sundew on 30-04-2013 19:01
#3
It is a Cecidomyiidae female, and as long as we do not know which galls it induces, we cannot find a name...

Oh, I see there is another reply coming at the same time - so if it really looks for Cyperaceae and does not just rest there in the grass, you got a good name!
Edited by Sundew on 30-04-2013 19:05

Posted by Toby on 30-04-2013 20:49
#4
thanks for answers, need to read up on gall midges.