Revision of early taxa of Australian gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)
Author
Kolesik, Peter
Author
Gagné, Raymond J.
text
Zootaxa
2016
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4
301
338
journal article
37404
10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.1
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Dasineura acaciaelongifoliae
(
Skuse, 1890
)
[
Fig.
2
g]
Cecidomyia
acaciae-longifoliae
Skuse, 1890
: 374
.
Dasineura acaciaelongifoliae
,
new combination
by Gagné in
Gagné & Marohasy (1993: 80)
.
Dasineura acaciaelongifoliae
, redescription in
Kolesik
et al.
2005
: 469
.
Material studied.
Syntypes, males and females, “Sydney (Skuse). Five males (one designated here as
lectotype
, ANIC 29-38458, other four as
paralectotypes
, ANIC 29-38457,59,66,68), 9 females (
paralectotypes
, ANIC 29- 38460–5,67,69,70) and 7 pupal skins (
paralectotypes
, ANIC 29-38471–7) were mounted.
Associated gall.
Adults were “bred from bunches of brown, woody cylindrical galls formed on the flowerstalks of
Acacia longifolia
. The full-grown galls are usually from
12 to 18 mm
. long, and occur in bunches of from two to twenty or thirty tubes; these tubes are rarely straight, being usually coalescent at the base and bending in an outward direction for their apical half. They are slightly constricted at the mouth, and clothed inside with white pubescence which evidently serves to facilitate the egress of the pupa (Pl. XVI., figs. 1-1b [
Fig.
2
g]).”, in
ANIC
.
Remarks.
The
types
were investigated, new specimens reared and their cytochrome B mitochondrial gene fragment sequenced, and the species redescribed by
Kolesik
et al.
(2005)
who found it feeding on
A. longifolia
,
A. sophorae
,
A. sophorae
x
A. oxycedrus
,
A. implexa
,
A. stricta
and
A. maidenii
.