Bug Spring Trailhead, Mount Lemmon
Pima County, Arizona
Coordinates: 32.345015, -110.718395
Elevation: 4,988 ft
October 4, 2021
Galls attached to Atriplex canescens (fourwing saltbush). I placed the galls in a jar, hoping to obtain adults. A gall, that I opened in the field, contained a pupa. Two days later (October 6, 2021), when I was ready to photograph it, the gall had this pupal casing and an adult fly had emerged.
Determined by Joshua C’deBaca
← FAMILY CECIDOMYIIDAE (Gall Midges and Wood Midges)
Diptera-Cecidomyiidae-Asphondylia neomexicana-Gall Midges PUPA (B)
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