Acericecis Explained

Acericecis is a genus of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are at least three described species in Acericecis.

Species

These three species belong to the genus Acericecis:

• Acericecis ocellaris (Osten Sacken, 1862) (ocellate gall midge)
• Acericecis vitrina (Kieffer, 1909)
• † Cecidomyia chaneyi (Cockerell, 1927)

Further reading

• Book: The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America. 1989. Gagné . R. J.. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-1918-8.
• Book: The Gall Midges of the Neotropical Region. 1994. Gagné . R. J.. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-2786-2.
• Book: A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World, Fourth Edition. 2017. Gagné. Raymond J.. Jaschhof. Mathias. Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture. 2018-05-06. 2020-10-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20201021223201/https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80420580/Gagne_2017_World_Cat_4th_ed.pdf. dead.
• Book: Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. 1981. McAlpine. J. F.. Petersen. B. V.. Shewell. G. E.. Teskey. H. J.. Vockeroth. J. R.. Wood. D. M.. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. 978-0-660-10731-8.
• A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World. 2014. Gagné. Raymond J.. Jaschhof. Mathias. Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA.