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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies (Bibionomorpha) » Fungus Gnats and Gall Midges (Sciaroidea) » Gall Midges and Wood Midges (Cecidomyiidae) » Gall Midges (Cecidomyiinae) » Cecidomyiidi » Macrodiplosis

Genus Macrodiplosis

Classification · Identification · Food
gall on back of oak leaf - Macrodiplosis majalis gall on underside of oak - Macrodiplosis majalis leaf fold on Red Oak - Macrodiplosis erubescens Possibly Macrodiplosis majalis - Macrodiplosis majalis Macrodiplosis erubescens gall on oak - Macrodiplosis St. Andrews Cecidomyiid leaf galls on Quercus nigra SA_G242 2023 1 - Macrodiplosis St. Andrews Cecidomyiid leaf galls on Quercus nigra SA_G242 2023 2 - Macrodiplosis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))
Infraorder Bibionomorpha (Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies)
Superfamily Sciaroidea (Fungus Gnats and Gall Midges)
Family Cecidomyiidae (Gall Midges and Wood Midges)
Subfamily Cecidomyiinae (Gall Midges)
Supertribe Cecidomyiidi
Genus Macrodiplosis
Identification
More work is needed on this genus. Regarding specimens reared from galls similar to those of Macrodiplosis niveipila, Raymond J. Gagné wrote: "What further identification would require is an exclusive and at least three-year project collecting galls from all the oaks east of the Mississippi, retaining some larvae and rearing adults from each kind of gall and host. Basing Macrodiplosis identifications on anything less than that would just be guesswork."
Food
Known larvae in Quercus (oak).
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 6 August, 2009 - 9:20pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 3 August, 2013 - 9:12pm

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