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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) » Woolly Stem Gall Midge (Asphondylia floccosa)

Species Asphondylia floccosa - Woolly Stem Gall Midge

Classification · Identification · Range · Habitat · See Also · Works Cited
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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 floccosa (Woolly Stem Gall Midge)
Identification
This species can be most readily identified from its gall being a large, woolly stem gall not covered with small leaf clusters on Atriplex polycarpa, based on the key of Gagné 1989(1). From this reference, "Masses of galls are 0.5-1.5 cm in diameter on apices of plants in the summer and are 1-10 cm in diameter and farther down on the plant in the winter. They are monothalamous or polythalamous, white, sometimes pink basally."
Range
California
Habitat
Host plant is Atriplex polycarpa.
See Also
Asphondylia neomexicana
Works Cited
1.The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America
Raymond J. Gagné. 1989. Cornell University Press.
Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 8 October, 2017 - 5:34pm
Last updated 13 October, 2017 - 10:10pm

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