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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 » Asphondyliini » Asphondylia » saltbush feeding species (Asphondylia saltbush feeding species) » Asphondylia neomexicana

Species Asphondylia neomexicana

Classification · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · See Also · Works Cited
Asphondylia gall on Atriplex? - Asphondylia neomexicana Asphondylia - Asphondylia neomexicana Galls with one torn in half to show chamber and pupa molt - Asphondylia neomexicana Pupa, lateral - Asphondylia neomexicana Adult male, specimen 2, ventral - Asphondylia neomexicana - male Adult male, specimen 3, lateral - Asphondylia neomexicana - male Asphondylia neomexicana? - Asphondylia neomexicana Larva, intermediate instar, lateral-ventral - Asphondylia neomexicana
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
Tribe Asphondyliini
Genus Asphondylia
No Taxon (saltbush feeding species)
Species neomexicana (Asphondylia neomexicana)
Size
Gall diameter is about 1 cm(1).
Identification
This midge is most easily identified from its gall. From the genus key of Gagné 1986(1), they are detachable dense woolly, white, spherical bud galls on Atriplex canescens about 1 cm in diameter. The four-winged seed of the host can often be seen end-on protruding through the trichome covering, as illustrated in his Fig. 247.
Range
New Mexico and California(1)
Habitat
Host for gall is Atriplex canescens (fourwing saltbush)(1).
Season
Galls occur in summer and fall(1).
See Also
Asphondylia floccosa
Works Cited
1.The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America
Raymond J. Gagné. 1989. Cornell University Press.
Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 7 October, 2017 - 10:25pm
Last updated 13 October, 2017 - 10:09pm

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