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Cecidomyiidae? => Miastor metraloas
Ingrid Altmann
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Hello,
on 18.5.15 I found unter bark this Diptera pupae (near Furth im Wald, Bavarian Forest, Bavaria, Germany). I took some of it home to breed them. These little red flies hatched on the 30.5.15. Length: 1,8 mm
Do they belong to the Cecidomyiidae?

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It's probably one of the basal lineages of fungus-feeding Cecidomyiidae but I'll need to pull out some books. The eyes are unusually small. Can you tell how many tarsomeres they have?
 
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I think they have 4 tarsomeres?
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Four tarsomeres (first longest), palps present, and not "buff-coloured" with "head and dorsum of thorax pale brown" should make them Miastor metraloas.

Quoting Wyatt (1967): "Larvae are readily found under the bark of rotting birch, where they often occur in large numbers and form dense star-shaped clusters. The decaying wood of many other trees may also be colonised to a lesser extent. The white larvae feed on the mycelium of wood-rotting fungi and reproduce by paedogenesis throughout the year."
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The structural difference between the two species of Miastor given by Wyatt is "first flagellar segment [of M. castaneae] twice as long as broad and twice as long as third segment (in M. metraloas this ratio is 1½)". The behavioral difference is "larvae were found in small numbers in the rotting bark of chestnut posts, not aggregated as are those of M. metraloas."
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Dear John,
great! I would not have thought that a determination up to the species would be possible.
If I remember correctly, I indeed found the pupae under birch bark.
Thank you very much for your help and for the detailed description!

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