Asphondylia clematidis

Asphondylia lacinariae

Asphondylia prosopidis

Lasioptera kallstroemia

Asphondylia ratibidae (summer generation)

A nice series of midges were reared in August, 1922 (No. 59) from an oval bud gall nearly V2 an inch in diameter, on Clematis drummondi collected at Austin, Texas. 

A series of midges were reared April 15, 1924 (No. 125) from an irregular, apical bud gall, some one inch in diameter and apparently composed of a series of aborted, partly unfolded leaflets, on Lacinaria punctata Kuntze collected at Austin, Texas.


Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 186, p, 149
The adults of this species have not been adequately characterized. The insects described below have been referred to this species. They were reared from a gall on the ovary of the flower of Prosopis glandulosa Torr, or mesquite, occurring at Austin and more commonly at Brownwood, Tex.

A series of midges were reared October 16-24, 1922 (No. 16, No. 124) from a stem gall on Kallstroemia intermedia Rydb., collected at Austin, Texas. The galls are found mostly at the nodes, the stem being enlarged to about three times its normal size, the gall subconical, the major diameter being 1/4 of an inch.


The gall according to Mr. Painter is apparently produced by the sealing of the tops of both ray and disk flowers of Ratibida (Lepachys) columnaris, a cone flower collected at Austin, and Brownwood, Tex., May 14th.

New species of gall midges from Texas