Lycopersicum esculentum [Solanum lycopersicum] ... Blossom midge infestations in common tomato ... a fraction of 1 per cent to over 80 per cent of the mature buds sampled...
*Capsicum frutescens ... In several instances practically 100 per cent of the flowers of peppers in small private garden plantings have been found infested with midge larvae...
Solanum melongena ... [listed as a host, but possibly not a preferred one] ...
Solanum tuberosum ... Blossom midge has been reared from Irish potato blossoms on only two occasions...
Solanum rantonnetii [Lycianthes rantonnetii] ...most of the blossoms heavily infested with pepper weevil larvae. A few buds were found to harbor small dipterous larvae which were called to the attention of the writer. They were reared to the adult stage and proved to be blossom midge.
Momordica charantia ... [listed as a host, with "severe damage"]...
Hibiscus sp. ...Over 80 per cent of the buds on a single plant in the upper Kipapa district were found infested...
Jasminum sambac ... Over 75 per cent of the living buds sampled were found infested ...
Brassica chinensis ... The single record to date is based on an infestation which developed on plants grown in the greenhouse...they occurred also on tomato flowers.

- D. D. Jensen: (1946) The identity and host plants of blossom midge in Hawaii (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Contarinia)^©