Dasineura folliculi
Dasineura folliculi is a species of gall midge that induces galls on several species of goldenrod in North America.[1] It was first described by Ephraim Porter Felt in 1908.[1] Adults live for only one to three days, mating near the goldenrod before laying eggs between leaves. Larvae are gregarious, with anywhere between five and eighty in a gall. The larvae mature within three to four weeks of hatching.[2]
| Dasineura folliculi | |
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| Gall of D. folliculi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
| Genus: | Dasineura |
| Species: | D. folliculi |
| Binomial name | |
| Dasineura folliculi Felt, 1908 | |
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References
- Gagne, R.J.; Jaschhof, M. (2021). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (5th ed.). Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. ISBN 978-0-9863941-3-3.
- Dorchin, N.; Scott, E. R.; Clarkin, C. E.; Luongo, M. P.; Jordan, S.; Abrahamson, W. G. (April 2009). "Behavioural, ecological and genetic evidence confirm the occurrence of host-associated differentiation in goldenrod gall-midges". Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 22 (4): 729–739. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01696.x. S2CID 32445708. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
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