Genus Lestodiplosis Kieffer, 1894

The genus includes 184 described species, but many of these are probably synonyms. The members are predators of other insects, mites, and, in one case, a millipede. Most species are predators of other gall midges. We have hatched Lestodiplosis from a range of other gall midge species, but most of this material awaits examination, and only three species are reported here based on host associations.