Stefaniella Kieffer, 1898

Elsayed, Ayman Khamis, Skuhravá, Marcela, Karam, Hedaya Hamza, Elminshawy, Abdelaziz & Al-Eryan, Mohamed Awad, 2015, New records and new species of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) developing on Chenopodiaceae in Egypt, Zootaxa 3904 (1), pp. 105-115 : 112

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.1.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:96E57EA4-716F-4C87-8857-1D21963CCD3A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6110413

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/916F5F77-6B3B-8C00-F8CF-3585FDE372E5

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scientific name

Stefaniella Kieffer, 1898
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Genus Stefaniella Kieffer, 1898 View in CoL View at ENA

The genus Stefaniella contains 9 Palaearctic species, 8 species on Atriplex spp. and one on Chenopodium vulvaria L. ( Chenopodiaceae ) ( Gagné & Jaschhof 2014). The genus Stefaniella can be characterized by the following combination of morphological characters ( Fedotova 1991b, Dorchin & Freidberg 2008): antenna 2+10 or 2+9- segmented if two ultimate flagellomeres fused; palpi two-segmented; ovipositor telescopic, with straight, posteriorly pointed aculeus bearing 2 rows of straight or apically curved setae, a lateral plate that bears short setae, and a rectangular apical lamella.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Cecidomyiidae

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