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Species Rabdophaga strobiloides - Willow Pinecone Gall Midge

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Pine-cone Willow Gall on Salix eriochepala - Rabdophaga strobiloides UT Gall - Rabdophaga strobiloides Willow Pinecone Gall Midge - Rabdophaga strobiloides willow pinecone gall - Rabdophaga strobiloides Rabdophaga? - Rabdophaga strobiloides Willow cone - Rabdophaga strobiloides Willow Pinecone Gall Midge, frontal - Rabdophaga strobiloides - female Willow Pinecone Gall Midge, ovipositing - Rabdophaga strobiloides - female

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 Lasiopteridi
Tribe Dasineurini
Genus Rabdophaga
Species strobiloides (Willow Pinecone Gall Midge)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Rhabdophaga strobiloides

Explanation of Names

Author: Osten Sacken, 1862

Range

New England to California.

Food

Forms galls on many species of willow.

Remarks

It forms galls in the apical buds of growing willow's twigs.

Print References

Gagne, Raymond J. 1989. The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America. Cornell University Press.

Internet References

U. Michigan. Manipulation of host plant development by the gall-midge Rhabdophaga strobiloides.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 30 April, 2009 - 12:03am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 5 May, 2017 - 9:22am

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