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haired. Wings (pi. i6, 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 (pi. 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. 



LESTODIPLOSIS Kicff. 



Leptodiplosis Kieff. 

 Coprodiplosis Kieff. sub. gen. 

 18 4 Kieffer, J. J. Soc. Ent. Fr. Bui., 63:280 (Leptodiplosis) 



1894 



(Coprodiplosis) 

 1895 



1896 



1897 

 1908 

 1910 

 1911 

 1913 



Fuielle Jeun. Natural., 24:84 



Soc. Ent. Fr. Bui., p. 193 



Wien. Ent. Zeit., 15:93, 97 



Syn. Cecid. de Eur. & Alg., p. 38-39 



Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 407 



Rubsaamen, E. H. Zeitsch. Wissenschaft. Insektenbiol., 15:285 



Felt, E. P. N, Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 19:59-60 



Kieff er, 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 ; h, breastbone (enlarged, original) 



