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Acinia corniculata (Zetterstedt, 1819) (a gall fly)

Date: 7 July 2004
Location: North Hampshire, England
Record Summary: on Lesser Knapweed
Associated organism: on living plant of Centaurea nigra
Identification Notes: Only one specimen seen, and this seen three times, as as it kept disappearing into the plant when I tried to photograph it, then crawling back to the top when I next went past. Identified from photos (mainly wing pattern).

Images etc

naked eye photograph Dorsal view - magnified 500 by 468 pixels
naked eye photograph Dorsal view - magnified 500 by 409 pixels
naked eye photograph Dorso-lateral view 500 by 448 pixels
naked eye photograph Dorso-lateral view 500 by 384 pixels
naked eye photograph Dorso-lateral view 500 by 416 pixels
naked eye photograph Latero-dorsal view 500 by 350 pixels
naked eye photograph Ventral view 500 by 469 pixels

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