Ardozyga stratifera (Meyrick)

Taylor, Gary S., Hyder, Brittany K. & Davies, Kerrie A., 2019, New species of gall fly (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) from Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Myrtaceae) in southern Australia and its associated parasitoids and inquilines, Zootaxa 4701 (5), pp. 401-416 : 413

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4701.5.1

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scientific name

Ardozyga stratifera (Meyrick)
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Specimens examined. AUSTRALIA, South Australia: 1 adult (dried) Mt Barker , 35°05.09’S 138°51.86’E, B. Hyder, 28.ix.2014 GoogleMaps , nodular stem gall on E. camaldulensis, Em. 17.x.2014.

Notes on biology. This is the first record of Ardozyga stratifera from Fergusonina galls. Ardozyga stratifera are known to cause malformation of leaf shoots by joining them together with webbing ( Common 1990, Gámez-Virués et al. 2009).

Common, I. F. B. (1990) Moths of Australia. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, pp. 1 - 535. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / 9780643101227

Gamez-Virues, S., Gurr, G., Raman, A., La Salle, J. & Nicol, H. (2009) Effects of flowering groundcover vegetation on diversity and activity of wasps in a farm shelterbelt in temperate Australia. BioControl, 54, 211 - 218. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10526 - 008 - 9182 - 9

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gelechiidae

Genus

Ardozyga