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silvery gray, the posterior tarsi silvery gray, the 2 distal segments 
black, the anterior and mid tarsi darker; claws unidentate, pulvilli 
shorter than the claws. Ovipositor short, the terminal lobes 
broadly oval. Type Cecid. a1349. 
Brachyneura americana Felt 
1907 Felt, E. P. New Species of Cecidomyiidae II, p. 5 
1908 ——————__N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 286 
The single female representing this species was taken August 2, 
1906 on the office window in Albany, N. Y., and was presumably 
reared from material brought into the office. 
Female. Length 1 mm. Antennae extending to the base of the 
abdomen, thickly clothed with narrow scales, black; 12 segments, 
the fifth subcylindric, the enlargement, with a length nearly three 
times its diameter; terminal segment produced, 
slender, distally tapering to a narrowly rounded 
apex. Palpi; the first segment short, stout, some- 
what rounded, the second more than twice the 
length of the first, more slender, the third a little 
longer and more slender than the second. Mesono- 
tum very dark brown, sparsely ornamented with 
yellowish hairs. Scutellum black with yellowish 
hairs basally, postscutellum and abdomen dark 
ike <a RAPA brownish black. Wings subhyaline, the membrane 
iS 78 4 thickly clothed with narrow fuscous scales, costa 
antennal seg- black. Halteres fuscous yellowish basally, black 
ment of Brac- : : Boek 
fia Feces apically. Legs mostly a uniform fuscous or blac : 
Bes a the second and third segments of the posterior tarsi 
.’ fuscous yellowish; claws long, unidentate, the pul- 
enlarged. (Ori- an ; ; ; 
Ee villi as long as the claws. Ovipositor short, the 
: lobes short, narrowly rounded. Type Cecid. 734. 


Fig. 79 Ovipositor of Brachyneura americana, enlarged. 
(Original) 
