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