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haired. Wings (pl. 16, fig. 3) hyaline, costa light brown; halteres 
yellowish transparent. Legs nearly uniform dull brown; claws 
rather stout, strongly curved near the middle, the posterior at least, 
simple. Genitalia (pl. 19, fig. 6); basal clasp segment very short, 
broad, the ventral margin produced as a long, curved process bearing 
a long, stout seta apically; terminal clasp segment swollen at the 
base; dorsal plate broad, deeply and triangularly incised, the lobes 
roundly tapering, obtuse; ventral plate broad, broadly rounded. 
Type Cecid. 429. 
LESTODIPLOsSIS Kieff. 
Leptodiplosis Kiefi. 
Coprodiplosis Kieff. sub. gen. 
18 4. Kieffer, J. J. Soc. Ent. Fr. Bul., 63:280 (Leptodiplosis) 
1894 ————— Fuielle Jeun. Natural., 24:84 
(Coprodiplosis) 
1895 —————— Soc. Ent. Fr. Bul., p. 193 
1896 ————— Wien. Ent. Zeit., 15:93, 97 
1897 ————— Syn. Cecid. de Eur. & Alg., p. 38-39 
1908 Felt, E.P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 124, p. 407 
1910 Rubsaamen, E.H. Zeitsch. Wissenschaft. Insektenbiol., 15:285 
Ig1t Felt, E.P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 19:59-60 
1913 Kieffer, J. J. Gen. Insect., fasc. 152, p. 195 
This genus, according to Kieffer, usually differs from Clinodiplosis 
by the spotted wings and the form of the male genitalia, the latter 
having the dorsal plate composed of two rounded lobes as long or 


Fig. 23. Lestodiplosis species: a, dorsal view of head and anterior body segment 
of larva; 6, breastbone (enlarged, original) 
