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Lipara
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Chloropidae
Subfamily:	Oscinellinae
Genus:	Lipara Meigen, 1830

Lipara is a genus of flies in the family Chloropidae. Among the Palearctic species, a specific community of bees and wasps make their nests in the galls of chloropid flies. Most frequently, they use the galls induced by Lipara lucens on common reed stems. Some of these aculeate hymenopteran species, such as the digger wasp Pemphredon fabricii (Crabronidae) or the solitary bee Hylaeus pectoralis (Colletidae) are specialized for nesting in galls induced by Lipara spp. more than a year ago.

Species

• L. lucens Meigen, 1830
• L. rufitarsis Loew, 1858
• L. pullitarsis Doskočil & Chvála, 1971
• L. similis Schiner, 1854

• Europe
• Nearctic

References

1. Bogusch, Astapenková & Heneberg 2015.

Sources

• Bogusch, P; Astapenková, A; Heneberg, P (2015). "Larvae and Nests of Six Aculeate Hymenoptera (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) Nesting in Reed Galls Induced by Lipara spp. (Diptera: Chloropidae) with a Review of Species Recorded" (PDF). PLOS ONE. 10 (6): e0130802. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1030802B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130802. PMC 4482587. PMID 26114290.

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• Oscinellinae
• Chloropidae genera
• Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen
• Gall-inducing insects
• Carnoidea stubs