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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) » Lasiopteridi » Alycaulini » Meunieriella

Genus Meunieriella

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Remarks · Works Cited
Meunieriella - Meunieriella on-smilax Lake Crabtree leaf gall on Smilax rotundifolia D_G55 2018 1 - Meunieriella on-smilax Spot Galls on Smilax - Meunieriella on-smilax Spot Galls on Smilax - Meunieriella on-smilax Smilax blister gall midge - Meunieriella on-smilax Smilax blister gall midge - Meunieriella on-smilax - male Smilax blister gall midge - Meunieriella on-smilax - female Meunieriella avicenniae galls on Avicennia germinans (black mangrove), Long Key State Park, Florida - Meunieriella
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 Alycaulini
Genus Meunieriella
Explanation of Names
Named for Belgian entomologist Fernand Anatole Meunier (1868-1926)
Numbers
One described species in North America (1)
Remarks
M. aquilonia Gagné causes blister galls on leaves of honeylocust (Gleditsia tricanthos). Raymond J. Gagné has reared an undescribed species from leaf spot galls in Smilax [email to Charley Eiseman, 7/26/2012].
"The genus is overwhelmingly Neotropical. Most species are known to be inquilinous in galls of other Cecidomyiidi but at least two, M. aquilonia and M. avicenniae, are gall makers."(2)
Works Cited
1.The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America
Raymond J. Gagné. 1989. Cornell University Press.
2.Update for a catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the world. Digital version 1.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 27 July, 2012 - 7:50am
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 17 April, 2014 - 7:50pm

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