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Short description: North American gall-inducing insect

Contarinia zauschneriae
California fuchsia gall midge imported from iNaturalist photo 58136843 on 9 November 2023.jpg
Scientific classification
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Supertribe: Cecidomyiidi
Tribe: Cecidomyiini
Genus: Contarinia
Species:
C. zauschneriae
Binomial name
Contarinia zauschneriae
(Felt, 1912)
Synonyms

Thecodiplosis zauschneriae

Contarinia zauschneriae, also known as the California fuchsia gall midge, is a species of gall midge that induces roselle-form bud galls on Epilobium canum, a flowering plant of western North America.[1][2] The galls are typically 25 millimeters high and about 15 millimeters around.[2] The coloration roughly mimics that of a stereotypical red rosebud, with red on the upper half where the petals would be and green-yellow at the base where the leaflets would be.[2] The type species was collected by Ephraim Felt in the Puente Hills, near Whittier, California, in 1910.[3]

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q13617425 entry