Gladiodiplosis frenelae ( Skuse, 1890 )

Kolesik, Peter & Gagné, Raymond J., 2016, Revision of early taxa of Australian gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), Zootaxa 4205 (4), pp. 301-338 : 318

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) .

Figures

FIGURE 2. (a) Galls of Lasioptera miscella Skuse on leaf stalks of Eucalyptus haemastoma, (b) leaf galls of Okriomyia omalanthi (Skuse) on Omalanthus populifolius, (c) stem galls of Daphnephila glandifex Kieffer on Machilus gamblei (Lauraceae) from India which Edwards (1916) stated resembled galls of Asphondylia hilli Edwards, (d) flowers galls of Dasineura dielsi Rübsaamen on Acacia cyclops, (e) galls of Cecidomyia eucalypti Skuse (unplaced Cecidomyiinae) on stems of Eucalyptus haemastoma, (f) galls of Mesodiplosis callitridis Kolesik on branch shoot tips of Callitris endlicheri from which the inquiline Gladiodiplosis frenelae (Skuse) was reared, (g) flower galls of Dasineura acaciaelongifoliae (Skuse) on Acacia longifolia, (h) leaf galls attributed to Cecidomyia parilis Skuse (nomen dubium) on Eucalyptus corymbosa, (i) leaf galls of Heteropeza transmarina Schiner (unplaced Cecidomyiinae) on Callistemon sp., (j) flower and vegetative bud galls of Dasineura frauenfeldi (Schiner) on Leptospermum laevigatum. Left: original figure from Schiner (1868); centre: galls collected with type series in 1858; right: galls collected by Kolesik at Queenscliff, Victoria, in 2008. Figures a, b, e – h from Skuse (1890); c from Kieffer (1913 b); d from Rübsaamen (1916); i, j (left) from Schiner (1868).