Rhopalomyia sulcata

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Rhopalomyia
Detachable: detachable
Color: green, purple, tan
Texture: hairless
Abundance:
Shape: cylindrical
Season:
Related:
Alignment: erect, leaning
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, leaf midrib, on leaf veins, between leaf veins, at leaf vein angles, leaf edge
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Tube Gall Midge
Synonymy:
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The Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of Baccharis spp. (Asteraceae) in the United States

Rhopalomyia sulcata Gagne New Species

Holotype. — From columnar gall on B. salicina, Pecos R., Loving, Eddy Co., New Mexico

Distribution. — United States: Arizona, New Mexico, western and southern Texas; Mexico: Durango, Nuevo Leon.

Hosts: This species is reported from B. halimifolia, B. heterophylla, B. neglecta, B. pteronioides, B. salicina, and B. sarothroides. The record on B. heterophylla is based only on similarity of the galls, but the other host records are based on adults and/or pupae. A generation of R. sulcata was reared from B. halimifolia and B. sarothroides in a greenhouse from a generation that came from field-collected galls on B. salicina.

- RJ Gagne, Paul E. Boldt.: (1995) The Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of Baccharis spp. (Asteraceae) in the United States©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16152993#page/791/mode/1up


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