Gladiodiplosis frenelae (Skuse, 1890)

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Cecidomyia (Diplosis) frenelae Skuse, 1890: 377 .

Gladiodiplosis frenelae, redescription and new combination by Kolesik (2000: 251).

Material studied. Holotype female (ANIC 29-38488), “ Wagga Wagga district, N.S.W. (Skuse).”

Associated galls. The holotype female was “bred from sub-globular, brown, smooth, valvate, fruit-like galls, about 5 mm. in diameter, consisting of three thin valves with median carinated line; found growing on the branchlets of the desert pine ( Frenela [now Callitris] endlicheri), in November (Pl. XVI., fig. 2 [Fig. 2 f])”, in ANIC.

Description and remarks. The type has preserved wings, head with some flagellomeres and thorax with one leg. Although it is missing most of its abdomen, including the terminalia, it was recognised as conspecific to an inquiline reared from two different galls: trivalvate branch shoot galls induced by Mesodiplosis callitridis Kolesik on Callitris endlicheri [this is the gall type from which Skuse (1890) reared the type specimen], C. glaucophylla and C. gracilis, and from rosette-like male flower galls induced by Callitridiplosis jana Kolesik on Callitris glaucophylla and C. gracilis (Kolesik 2000) .