Cecidomyiinae

Clinodiplosis sp., copyright R. B. Pape.

Belongs within: Cecidomyiidae.
Contains: Oligotrophini, Alycaulini, Asphondyliini.

The Cecidomyiinae are a diverse group of midges, many of which cause galls in plants but which also include non-galling phytophagous, mycophagous and predatory forms (Gagné 1981). They are divided between four supertribes, of which the Cecidomyiidi are characterised by male genitalia with parameres rudimentary or absent, as well as by twelve-segmented antennae with flagellomeres cylindrical in females and usually binodal in males (Gagné & Jaschhof 2009).

Characters (from Gagné & Jaschhof 2009): Ocelli absent. Rs usually absent or weaker than other veins and evanescent at junction at R₁, with base of M (M+rm) straight or at most weakly sinuous. Male gonocoxites free ventrally. Female cercus usually one-segmented, often fused mesally.

<==Cecidomyiinae
    |  i. s.: Rhizomyia G81
    |         Epimyia carolina G81
    |--Stomatosematidi GJ09
    |    |--Stomatosema dominicensis GJ09
    |    `--Didactylomyia longimana GJ09
    |--Brachineuridi GJ09
    |    |--Chrybaneura harrisoni GJ09
    |    `--Brachineura GJ09
    |--Lasiopteridi [Oligotrophidi] GJ09
    |    |--Oligotrophini G81
    |    |--Alycaulini GJ09
    |    |--Ledomyia [Ledomyiini] GJ09
    |    |    `--L. setosa G81
    |    |--Trotteria [Trotteriini] GJ09
    |    |    `--T. sarothamni A71
    |    |--Camptoneuromyiini GJ09
    |    |    |--Camptoneuromyia adhesa GJ09, G81
    |    |    |--Salvalasioptera merremiae GJ09
    |    |    |--Incolasioptera siccida GJ09
    |    |    |--Domolasioptera GJ09
    |    |    `--Copinolasioptera salvadorensis GJ09
    |    `--Lasiopterini [Lasiopterina] GJ09
    |         |--Ozirhincus millefolii G81
    |         |--Hybolasioptera elymi G81
    |         |--Isolasioptera GJ09
    |         |    |--I. eupatoriensis GJ09
    |         |    `--I. palmae GJ09
    |         `--Lasioptera GJ09
    |              |--L. kallstroemia GJ09
    |              |--L. picta [=Cecidomya (Lasioptera) picta] G20
    |              `--L. solidaginis G81
    `--Cecidomyiidi GJ09
         |  i. s.: Taxodiomyia G81
         |         Coccidomyia pennsylvanica G81, GJ09
         |         Aphidoletes aphidimyza G81
         |         Harmandia reflexa G81
         |         Tanaodiplosis androgynes G81
         |         Dicrodiplosis guatemalensis GJ09
         |         Feltiella GJ09
         |           |--F. acarisuga P09
         |           |--F. davisi G81
         |           |--F. insularis GJ09
         |           `--F. pini GJ09
         |         Lobodiplosis triangularis G81
         |         Karschomyia G81
         |         Kalodiplosis floridana G81
         |         Diadiplosis GJ09
         |         Plectrodiplosis fascipennis G81
         |         Ctenodactylomyia watsoni G81, GJ09
         |         Pitydiplosis packardi G81
         |         Homobremia insolens G81
         |         Youngomyia podophylli GJ09, G81
         |         Ancylodiplosis bryanti G81
         |         Coquillettomyia GJ09
         |           |--C. dentata G81
         |           `--C. obliqua GJ09
         |         Glenodiplosis callipus G81
         |         Mycodiplosis GJ09
         |           |--M. alternata F56
         |           |--M. conicola Foote 1956 F56
         |           |--M. coryloides Foote 1956 F56
         |           |--M. hudsoni F56
         |           |--M. inimica G81
         |           `--M. ligulata GJ09
         |         Parallelodiplosis G81
         |         Sequiomyia taxodii G81
         |         Silvestrina cincta G81
         |         Aphodiplosis trnagularis G81
         |         Cartodiplosis nyssaecola G81
         |         Caryomyia G81
         |         Monarthropalpus buxi G81
         |         Pinyonia edulicola G81
         |         Olpodiplosis helianthi G81
         |         Halodiplosis sarcobati G81
         |         Pilodiplosis helianthibula G81
         |         Thecodiplosis piniresinosae G81
         |         Zeuxidiplosis giardi G81
         |         Paradiplosis G81
         |         Lobopteromyia filicis G81
         |         Prodiplosis GJ09
         |           |--P. longifila GJ09
         |           `--P. morrisi G81
         |         Tropidiplosis pectinata G81
         |         Odontodiplosis americana G81
         |         Adiplosis toxicodendri G81
         |         Trisopsis G81
         |         Dentifibula viburni G81
         |         Thaumadiplosis magnicauda G81
         |         Pectinodiplosis erratica G81
         |         Endaphis GJ09
         |           |--E. maculans GJ09
         |           `--E. perfidus A71
         |         Thripsobremia quercifolia G81
         |         Epidiplosis sayi G81
         |         Arthrocnodax rhoinus G81
         |         Lestodiplosis GJ09
         |           |--L. callipus GJ09
         |           |--L. grassator G81
         |           `--L. taxiconis Foote 1956 F56
         |         Apagodiplosis papyriferae G81
         |         Putoniella marsupialis G81
         |         Blaesodiplosis G81
         |         Macrodiplosis G81
         |         Obolodiplosis robiniae G81
         |         Ametrodiplosis dulichii G81
         |         Hyperdiplosis lobata G81, GJ09
         |         Giardomyia G81
         |         Gongrodiplosis latipes G81
         |         Platydiplosis nigricauda G81
         |         Cordylodiplosis molliterga G81
         |         Sitodiplosis mosellana G81
         |         Resseliella GJ09
         |           |--R. alternata G81
         |           `--R. pinifoliae G81
         |         Contarinia GJ09
         |           |--C. agrimoniae F56
         |           |--C. gossypii GJ09
         |           |--C. lycopersici GJ09
         |           |--C. maculipennis GJ09
         |           |--C. oregonensis Foote 1956 F56
         |           |--C. partheniicola G81
         |           |--C. perfoliata F56
         |           |--C. pyrivora RD77
         |           |--C. schulzi GJ09
         |           |--C. sorghicola B88
         |           `--C. wattsi G81
         |         Charidiplosis triangularis GJ09
         |         Astrodiplosis speciosa GJ09
         |         Schismatodiplosis lantanaei GJ09
         |--Asphondyliini GJ09
         |--Clinodiplosini GJ09
         |    |--Iatrophobia brasiliensis GJ09
         |    `--Clinodiplosis GJ09
         |         |--C. americana GJ09
         |         |--C. araneosa GJ09
         |         |--C. capsici GJ09
         |         |--C. denotata GJ09
         |         |--G. eupatorii GJ09
         |         |--C. lappa G81
         |         `--C. rhododendri G96
         `--Cecidomyia [Cecidomyiini] GJ09
              |--C. candidipes G81
              |--‘Cynips’ fagi Linnaeus 1758 A81, L58
              |--C. frauenfeldti B88
              |--C. nigra G20
              |--C. pini S00
              |--C. piniinopis G81
              `--C. resinicola GJ09

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[A81] Adler, H. 1881. Les Cynipides. 1^re partie. Introduction. La génération alternante chez les cynipides, traduit et annoté par J. Lichtenstein, suivi de la classification des cynipides d'après le D^r G. Mayr. C. Coulet: Montpellier.

[A71] Askew, R. R. 1971. Parasitic Insects. Heinemann Educational Books: London.

[B88] Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).

[F56] Foote, R. H. 1956. Gall midges associated with cones of western forest trees (Diptera: Itonididae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46 (2): 48–57.

[G81] Gagné, R. J. 1981. Cecidomyiidae. In: McAlpine, J. F., B. V. Peterson, G. E. Shewell, H. J. Teskey, J. R. Vockeroth & D. S. Wood (eds) Manual of Nearctic Diptera vol. 1 pp. 257–292. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada.

[G96] Gagné, R. J. 1996. A new species of Dasineura (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) infesting pinxterbloom azalea flowers in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 98 (2): 228–232.

[GJ09] Gagné, R. J., & M. Jaschhof. 2009. Cecidomyiidae (gall midges). In: Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley & M. A. Zumbado (eds) Manual of Central American Diptera vol. 1 pp. 293–314. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.

[G20] Goldfuss, G. A. 1820. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte vol. 3. Handbuch der Zoologie pt 1. Johann Leonhard Schrag: Nürnberg.

[L58] Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae.

[P09] Pape, T. 2009. Economic importance of Diptera. In: Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley & M. A. Zumbado (eds) Manual of Central American Diptera vol. 1 pp. 65–77. NRC Research Press: Ottawa.

[RD77] Richards, O. W., & R. G. Davies. 1977. Imms' General Textbook of Entomology 10^th ed. vol. 2. Classification and Biology. Chapman and Hall: London.

[S00] Siddiqi, M. R. 2000. Tylenchida: Parasites of plants and insects 2^nd ed. CABI Publishing: Wallingford (UK).

Last updated: 18 July 2021.