Macrodiplosis Explained

Macrodiplosis is a genus of gall midges, insects in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are about 19 described species in Macrodiplosis.

Species

These 19 species belong to the genus Macrodiplosis:

• Macrodiplosis antennata (Felt, 1908)

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• Macrodiplosis castaneae (Stebbins, 1910)

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• Macrodiplosis claytoniae (Felt, 1907)

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• Macrodiplosis dryobia (Low, 1877)

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• Macrodiplosis electra (Felt, 1908)

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• Macrodiplosis erubescens (Osten Sacken, 1862)

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• Macrodiplosis flavoscuta (Felt, 1907)

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• Macrodiplosis flexa Kovalev, 1972

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• Macrodiplosis inflexa (Bremi, 1847)

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• Macrodiplosis majalis (Osten Sacken, 1878)

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• Macrodiplosis niveipila (Osten Sacken, 1862)

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• Macrodiplosis pustularis (Bremi, 1847)

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• Macrodiplosis putrida (Felt, 1912)

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• Macrodiplosis qoruca (Felt, 1925)

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• Macrodiplosis q-oruca (Felt, 1925)

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• Macrodiplosis roboris Kieffer, 1895

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• Macrodiplosis selenis Kim & Yukawa

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• Macrodiplosis venae (Felt, 1914)

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• Macrodiplosis visvanathi (Rao, 1952)

^{c g}Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

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.
• 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.