Asphondylia is a cosmopolitan genus of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. All species in this genus induce galls on plants, especially on flowers and flower buds.[1][2] There are over 300 described species in Asphondylia, with many more likely to be discovered and described, especially in the southern hemisphere.[1][2]
| Asphondylia | |
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| Asphondylia solidaginis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
| Tribe: | Asphondyliini |
| Genus: | Asphondylia |
Within the genus, characteristics of the larvae and pupae are often most useful for distinguishing between species since adults of most species look very similar to one another.[3] The species inducing a given gall can sometimes be identified based on the shape and placement of the gall in combination with the identity of the host plant.[2]
Species
edit- Asphondylia abutilon Felt, 1935
- Asphondylia adenostoma Felt, 1916
- Asphondylia amaranthi Felt, 1935
- Asphondylia ambrosiae Gagne, 1975
- Asphondylia antennariae (Wheeler, 1889)
- Asphondylia artemisiae Felt, 1908
- Asphondylia atriplicicola (Cockerell, 1898)
- Asphondylia atriplicis (Townsend, 1893)
- Asphondylia auripila Felt, 1907
- Asphondylia autumnalis Beutenmuller, 1907
- Asphondylia azaleae Felt, 1907
- Asphondylia baroni Felt, 1908
- Asphondylia bea Felt, 1925
- Asphondylia betheli Cockerell, 1907
- Asphondylia bidens Johannsen, 1945
- Asphondylia bigeloviaebrassicoides (Townsend, 1893)
- Asphondylia boerhaaviae Mohn, 1959
- Asphondylia borrichiae Rossi & Strong, 1990
- Asphondylia brevicauda Felt, 1907
- Asphondylia buddleia (Felt, 1935)
- Asphondylia bumeliae Felt, 1907
- Asphondylia caudicis Gagne, 1986
- Asphondylia ceanothi Felt, 1908 (ceanothus bud gall midge)
- Asphondylia chrysothamni Felt, 1916
- Asphondylia clematidis Felt, 1935
- Asphondylia diervillae Felt, 1907
- Asphondylia diplaci Felt, 1912
- Asphondylia dondiae Felt, 1918
- Asphondylia enceliae Felt, 1912
- Asphondylia eupatorii Felt, 1911
- Asphondylia floccosa Gagne, 1968 (woolly stem gall midge)
- Asphondylia florida Felt, 1908
- Asphondylia foliata Gagne, 1986
- Asphondylia fulvopedalis Felt, 1907
- Asphondylia garryae Felt, 1912
- Asphondylia gemmae Gagne, 1968
- Asphondylia helianthiflorae Felt, 1908
- Asphondylia helianthiglobulus Osten Sacken, 1878
- Asphondylia hydrangeae Felt, 1907
- Asphondylia ilicicola Foote, 1953
- Asphondylia ilicoides Felt, 1907
- Asphondylia integrifoliae Felt, 1908
- Asphondylia johnsoni Felt, 1908
- Asphondylia lacinariae Felt, 1935
- Asphondylia mentzeliae Cockerell, 1900
- Asphondylia mimosae Felt, 1934
- Asphondylia monacha Osten Sacken, 1869
- Asphondylia nepetae Viggiani, 2018 [4]
- Asphondylia neomexicana (Cockerell, 1896)
- Asphondylia nodula Gagne, 1986
- Asphondylia photiniae Pritchard, 1952
- Asphondylia pilosa Kieffer, 1898
- Asphondylia portulacae Mohn, 1959
- Asphondylia prosopidis Cockerell, 1898 (mesquite gall midge)
- Asphondylia pseudorosa Dorchin, 2015
- Asphondylia ratibidae Felt, 1935
- Asphondylia recondita Osten Sacken, 1875
- Asphondylia resinosa Gagne, 1990 (creosote resin gall mige)
- Asphondylia rosulata Dorchin, 2015
- Asphondylia rudbeckiaeconspicua Osten Sacken, 1878
- Asphondylia salictaria Felt, 1907
- Asphondylia sambuci Felt, 1908
- Asphondylia sarothamni Loew, 1850
- Asphondylia shepherdiae Felt, 1916
- Asphondylia smilacinae Felt, 1907
- Asphondylia silva Dorchin, 2015
- Asphondylia solidaginis Beutenmüller, 1907
- Asphondylia thalictri Felt, 1911
- Asphondylia verbenae Felt, 1935
- Asphondylia vernoniae Felt, 1908
- Asphondylia websteri Felt, 1917 (alfalfa gall midge)
- Asphondylia xanthii Felt, 1936
References
edit- ^ a b R.J. Gagne; M. Jaschof (2021). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (5th ed.). ISBN 978-0-9863941-3-3. Wikidata Q109561625.
- ^ a b c Netta Dorchin; Jeffrey B. Joy; Lukas K. Hilke; Michael J. Wise; Warren G. Abrahamson (14 May 2015). "Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Asphondylia species (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of North American goldenrods: challenging morphology, complex host associations, and cryptic speciation". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (2): 265–304. doi:10.1111/ZOJ.12234. ISSN 1096-3642. Wikidata Q99657406.
- ^ Raymond J. Gagné; Jung Wook Kim; Nami Uechi; Junichi Yukawa (October 2018). "A New Pest Asphondylia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on Grape Berries (Vitaceae) in Southwestern North America with Descriptive Notes on the Genus". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 120 (4): 779–790. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.120.4.779. ISSN 0013-8797. Wikidata Q104459527.
- ^ Bernardo, Umberto; Nugnes, Francesco; Gualtieri, Liberata; Nicoletti, Rosario; Varricchio, Paola; Sasso, Raffaele; Viggiani, Gennaro (6 June 2018). "A New Gall Midge Species of Asphondylia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Inducing Flower Galls on Clinopodium nepeta (Lamiaceae) From Europe, Its Phenology, and Associated Fungi". Environmental Entomology. 47 (3): 609–622. doi:10.1093/ee/nvy028. PMID 29534165. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
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