Biology:Rabdophaga albipennis

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Rabdophaga albipennis
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Genus: Rabdophaga
Species:
R. albipennis
Binomial name
Rabdophaga albipennis
Loew, 1850
Synonyms[1]

Dasineura albipennis
Cecidomyia albipennis Loew, 1850
Rhabdophaga albipennis (Loew, H.)

Rabdophaga albipennis is a gall midge which forms galls on the shoots of white willow (Salix alba).

Description

The gall is a slight swelling on a twig just below a bud on white willow (Salix alba). Inside the gall is a reddish-orange larvae which later makes an emergence hole in the twig or bud and overwinters in the gall.[2][3]

Distribution

The insect or gall has been found in Great Britain and Italy.[2][4]

References

  1. "Rabdophaga albipennis (Loew, 1850)". https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NBNSYS0100005008#names. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Redfern, Margaret; Shirley, Peter; Boxham, Michael (2011). British Plant Galls (Second ed.). Shrewsbury: Field Study Council. pp. 282–299. ISBN 978-185153-284-1. 
  3. Ellis, W N. "Rabdophaga albipennis (Loew, 1850)". http://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/animalia/arthropoda/insecta/diptera/nematocera/cecidomyiidae/cecidomyiinae/lasiopteridi/oligotrophini/rabdophaga/rabdophaga-albipennis/. 
  4. Hellrigl, Klaus (2006). "Gall-midges and Gall-mites: Supplement to Faunistics of South Tyrol (2)". Forest Observer 2/3: 251–280. 

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