Biology:Asteromyia tumifica
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Short description: Species of fly
| Asteromyia tumifica | |
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| A. tumifica stem gall | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
| Genus: | Asteromyia |
| Species: | A. tumifica
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| Binomial name | |
| Asteromyia tumifica (Beutenmuller, 1907)
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Asteromyia tumifica is a species of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae.[1][2][3][4] This fly causes blister galls on green stems at the base of goldenrod stems. It has a fungal symbiont responseible for forming a black, hard cast around full-grown larvae. The fungi are trasported by the female midges in the ovipositor and spores are trnsferred at the time of egg insertion into the stem. [5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Asteromyia tumifica Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=123468.
- ↑ "Asteromyia tumifica species details". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/9cd7603354fe42fb071bf4b055af5ee8.
- ↑ "Asteromyia tumifica". https://www.gbif.org/species/1596004.
- ↑ "Asteromyia tumifica Species Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/514515.
- ↑ Borkent, Art (1985). "Gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) are vectors for their fungal symbionts". Symbiosis 1: 185–194. https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/76855/VOLUME%201-NUMBER%202-1985-PAGE%20185.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1.
Further reading
- Gagné, Raymond J.; Jaschhof, Mathias (2017). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World, Fourth Edition. Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80420580/Gagne_2017_World_Cat_4th_ed.pdf.
- Gagné, Raymond J.; Jaschhof, Mathias (2014). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (Report). Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA. http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/12454900/Gagne_2014_World_Cecidomyiidae_Catalog_3rd_Edition.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q13625577 entry
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