On the Early Stages ofLestodiplosis alveiBarnes (Diptera, Cecidomyidae), especially in Relation to the Larval Head Capsule

Abstract

The main object of this paper is the description of the larva of a new species of Cecidomyid, found by me in January 1933 in two old beehives from Selehurst, Horsham, Sussex. The adult Cecidomyids, reared from these larvae, were submitted to Dr H. F. Barnes, who has found them to be a new species described by him under the name of Lestodiplosis alvei, in the paper which immediately follows.