Contarinia zauschneriae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Supertribe: Cecidomyiidi
Tribe: Cecidomyiini
Genus: Contarinia
Species:
C. zauschneriae
Binomial name
Contarinia zauschneriae
(Felt, 1912)
Synonyms

Thecodiplosis zauschneriae

Contarinia zauschneriae, also known as the California fuchsia gall midge, is a species of gall midge that induces roselle-form bud galls on Epilobium canum, a flowering plant of western North America.[1][2] The galls are typically 25 millimeters high and about 15 millimeters around.[2] The coloration roughly mimics that of a stereotypical red rosebud, with red on the upper half where the petals would be and green-yellow at the base where the leaflets would be.[2] The type species was collected by Ephraim Felt in the Puente Hills, near Whittier, California, in 1910.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Contarinia zauschneriae (California Fuchsia Gall Midge)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  2. 1 2 3 Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. p. 231. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN 2020949502. OCLC 1239984577. S2CID 238148746.
  3. ↑ "The Gall Midges of California" (PDF). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey. University of California Press. 2 (2): 143. 1953. Retrieved 2023-11-09 – via essig.berkeley.edu.


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