Species Macrodiplosis niveipila

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Remarks · Works Cited

Woolly Oak Gall? - Macrodiplosis niveipila

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))

Infraorder Bibionomorpha

Family Cecidomyiidae (Gall Midges)

Subfamily Cecidomyiinae (Gall Midges)

Genus Macrodiplosis

Species niveipila (Macrodiplosis niveipila)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cecidomyia niveipila Osten Sacken, 1862

Remarks

Forms galls on leaves of white oak (Quercus alba) and other oaks: "Amorphous, thin-walled, large fold with white down on inside surface, often deforming leaf." (1) In addition to an illustration of a highly distorted white oak leaf, Gagne illustrates a fuzzy gall on a red oak leaf, identical to the ones shown here, with the caption "hairy vein pocket: Macrodiplosis ?niveipila." Evidently this gall is presumed to be caused by the same species but has not been reared.

Works Cited

1.	The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America By Raymond J. Gagne

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 6 December, 2009 - 11:12am

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