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Lestremia

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Lestremia is a genus of midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are 18 described species in this genus. It was established by French entomologist Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart in 1826.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderDiptera
  5. FamilyCecidomyiidae

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Specimen records
20
With media
11
Family
Cecidomyiidae
Collections
UAM, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, NHMUK, NRM, CASC, MNHN
Recorded in
United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Netherlands, Myanmar, Allemagne, Sweden

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Lestremiinae
Image
Lestremia (Tamaki).jpg
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taxon name
Lestremia
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Lestremia
Commons category
Lestremia
taxonomic type
Lestremia cinerea
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Encyclopedic overview

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Lestremia is a genus of midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are 18 described species in this genus. It was established by French entomologist Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart in 1826.

==Species== Lestremia allahabadensis Grover, 1970 Lestremia calcuttaensis Mani, 1937 Lestremia ceylandica Kieffer, 1912 Lestremia cinerea Macquart, 1826 Lestremia clivicola Hardy, 1960 Lestremia deepica Sharma & Rao, 1980 Lestremia deploegi Nel & Prokop, 2006 Lestremia eocenica Nel & Prokop, 2006 Lestremia indica Kieffer, 1909 Lestremia leucophaea (Meigen, 1818) Lestremia nigra Blanchard, 1852 Lestremia novaezealandiae Marshall, 1896 Lestremia palikuensis Hardy, 1960 Lestremia parvostylia Jaschhof, 1994 Lestremia pinites Meunier, 1904 Lestremia sanctijohanni Rao, 1951 Lestremia solidaginis (Felt, 1907) Lestremia ugandae Barnes, 1936

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