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Contarinia
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Contarinia loti
(a gall midge)
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Contarinia loti (De Geer) (a gall midge)

Warning: Identification questionable
Date: 13 August 2005
Location: Oxon, England
State: Larva
Record Summary: 2 galled flowers on Birds-foot Trefoil
Associated organism: in galled flower of Lotus corniculatus
Identification Notes: One gall empty, the other (the smaller one) contained a single large creamy larva.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Galled flower - LS - highly enlarged 438 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Galled flower - LS - highly enlarged 450 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Galled flowers - close-up - enlarged 500 by 346 pixels
naked eye photograph Galled flowers - LS - enlarged 500 by 387 pixels
naked eye photograph Galled flowers 500 by 350 pixels

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