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Colpodia diervillae Felt 



1907 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. no, p. 145-46 (separate, p. 49) 



(Porricondyla) 



1908 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124, p. 417 



This midge was taken on bush honeysuckle, Diervilla 

 1 o n i c e r a , at Karner, N. Y., July 5, 1906. 



Male. Length 1 mm. Antennae one-half longer than the body, 

 sparsely haired, dark brown, yellowish basally; 16 segments, the 

 fifth with a stem two and one-half times the length of the sub- 

 cylindric basal enlargement, the latter with a length nearly thrice its 



Fig. 17 Colpodia 



diervillae; fifth antennal segment of male, en- 

 larged (original) 



diameter; terminal segment narrowly oval, obtusely rounded. Palpi; 

 the first segment short, subquadrate, the second very long, slender, 

 possibly composed of two fused, the third more slender, less than one- 

 half as long as the second, the fourth one-half longer and more slender 

 than the third. Face yellowish. Mesonotum reddish, submedian lines 

 yellow. Scutellum, postscutellum and abdomen pale yellowish. 

 Wings very long, narrow, hyaline, costa dark brown. Halteres pale 

 yellowish. Legs a nearly uniform dark brown; claws simple, long, 

 uniformly curved. Genitalia; basal clasp segment stout, obliquely 

 truncate; terminal clasp segment short, stout, subtruncate and at 

 the internal angle a stout, chitinous spur one-fifth the length of the 

 segment. Dorsal plate broad, deeply and triangularly incised; 

 ventral plate apparently narrow, narrowly rounded. Harpes diverg- 

 ing basally, approximate distally, with a heavy, recurved, acute 

 spine; at the distal third there is a heavy, chitinous spine, possibly 

 connected with this organ; style long, narrow, acute. (Plate 5, figure 

 3.) Type Cecid. 485. 



