Asphondylia litseae Felt

Kolesik, Peter & Gagné, Raymond J., 2020, A review of the gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of Indonesia: taxonomy, biology and adult key to genera, Zootaxa 4847 (1), pp. 1-82 : 16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4847.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1F8E3DED-6EA9-4D8A-8DA9-CD8C0CC9147F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4407461

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A32D87D4-1C44-537E-55DE-FDF020B6E5EC

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Plazi

scientific name

Asphondylia litseae Felt
status

 

Asphondylia litseae Felt View in CoL

[ Fig. 6n View FIGURES 6 ]

Asphondylia litseae Felt, 1921b: 149 View in CoL .

Type series. Syntypes, female and 2 pupae, reared from stem galls on Litsea sp. ( Lauraceae ) collected in Ungaran Mts, Java, alt. 1400 m, 21-iv-1914, Felt #a3096). This series could not be found in the Felt slide collection.

Description based on Felt (1921b), some superficial characters omitted. Female. Length 2.5 mm. Flagellomeres 12 in number, fifth 2.5x longer than wide, terminal reduced, globose. Circumfila coarse, bowed, resembling Schizomyia . Palpus 2-segmented, first segment subquadrate, second broadly oval, acute apically. Tarsal claws stout, strongly curved, simple; empodia about 2/3 claw length. Pseudocerci at base of eversible part of ovipositor rudimentary.

Pupa (based on Felt (1921b)). Length 2.5 mm. Antennal horns unusually long, narrowly triangular [ Fig. 6n View FIGURES 6 (from Felt 1921b, Fig. 5 View FIGURES 5 )]. Prothoracic spiracle slender, strongly curved.

Male, larva unknown.

Remarks. Felt (1921b) only tentatively placed this species in Asphondylia and wrote that it might belong to Schizomyia due to the heavy [dense] and relatively high circumfila and the absence of well-developed lobes at the base of the ovipositor. Only further collecting can solve this problem.

Biology. This species was reared from a stem gall on Litsea sp. ( Lauraceae ) 21-iv-1914 by DvL (1921). He stated that the gall specimen became lost before it could be illustrated and described it only as a swelling at the top of the stem with several larval chambers.

Geographical distribution. This species is known only from the type locality in Ungaran Mts , Java, where it was collected at 1400 m altitude, 21-iv-1914 ( Felt 1921b; DvL 1921) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Cecidomyiidae

Genus

Asphondylia

Loc

Asphondylia litseae Felt

Kolesik, Peter & Gagné, Raymond J. 2020
2020
Loc

Asphondylia litseae

Felt, E. P. 1921: 149
1921
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