Macrodiplosis

Macrodiplosis is a genus of gall midges, insects in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are about 19 described species in Macrodiplosis.[1][2][3][4]

Macrodiplosis
Macrodiplosis niveipila gall, red oak
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Supertribe:	Cecidomyiidi
Genus:	Macrodiplosis Kieffer, 1895

Species

These 19 species belong to the genus Macrodiplosis:

• Macrodiplosis antennata (Felt, 1908) ^{i c g}
• Macrodiplosis castaneae (Stebbins, 1910) ^{i b}
• Macrodiplosis claytoniae (Felt, 1907) ^{i c g}
• Macrodiplosis dryobia (Low, 1877) ^{c g}
• Macrodiplosis electra (Felt, 1908) ^{i c g}
• Macrodiplosis erubescens (Osten Sacken, 1862) ^{i c g b}
• Macrodiplosis flavoscuta (Felt, 1907) ^{i c g}
• Macrodiplosis flexa Kovalev, 1972 ^{c g}
• Macrodiplosis inflexa (Bremi, 1847) ^g
• Macrodiplosis majalis (Osten Sacken, 1878) ^{i c g b}
• Macrodiplosis niveipila (Osten Sacken, 1862) ^{i c g b}
• Macrodiplosis pustularis (Bremi, 1847) ^g
• Macrodiplosis putrida (Felt, 1912) ^{i c g}
• Macrodiplosis qoruca (Felt, 1925) ^{i b}
• Macrodiplosis q-oruca (Felt, 1925) ^{c g}
• Macrodiplosis roboris Kieffer, 1895 ^{c g}
• Macrodiplosis selenis Kim & Yukawa ^g
• Macrodiplosis venae (Felt, 1914) ^{c g}
• Macrodiplosis visvanathi (Rao, 1952) ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

1. "Macrodiplosis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
2. "Browse Macrodiplosis". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
3. "Macrodiplosis". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
4. "Macrodiplosis Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-22.

Further reading

• Gagné, R. J. (1989). The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-1918-8.
• Gagné, R. J. (1994). The Gall Midges of the Neotropical Region. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-2786-2.
• Gagné, Raymond J.; Jaschhof, Mathias (2017). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World, Fourth Edition (PDF). Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture.
• McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN 978-0-660-10731-8.
• Gagné, Raymond J.; Jaschhof, Mathias (2014). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (PDF) (Report). Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA.

External links

• Media related to Macrodiplosis at Wikimedia Commons