Neolasioptera

Gagné, Raymond J., Kay, Fernando Mc & Heard, Tim A., 2011, A new species of Neolasioptera (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Parkinsonia aculeata (Leguminosae) in Argentina for possible use in biological control in Australia, with a key to Neotropical species of Neolasioptera, Zootaxa 2866, pp. 61-68 : 62

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.277453

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6183867

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387E1-5E71-D756-FF1C-77A0FA11B81D

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Neolasioptera
status

 

Taxonomy of Neolasioptera View in CoL

Neolasioptera is the largest genus of the tribe Alycaulini . Its species are primary gall makers and have adults with 3- or 4-segmented palpi and fully fused, unlobed female cerci, pupae with a non-brittle exoskeleton, and larvae with the spatula (the characteristic dermal thoracic structure of most cecidomyiids) usually well-developed (with four exceptions), 3 or 4 lateral papillae on each side of the spatula and usually 6–8 papillae (two species with 4) on the terminal segment, which is convex and unlobed ( Gagné 1994). Many Neolasioptera species have an associated, presumably symbiotic fungus, but the tunnels of the new species show no sign of fungal hyphae or its excrescence.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Cecidomyiidae

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