Dasineura

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Dasineura
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily: Cecidomyiinae
Supertribe: Lasiopteridi
Tribe: Oligotrophini
Genus: Dasineura
Rondani, 1840
Type species
Tipula sisymbrii
Schrank, 1803
Synonyms

Neocerata Coquillett, 1900

Dasineura is a genus of midges in the family Cecidomyiidae, some of which cause galls on plants such as Dasineura crataegi on hawthorn ( Crataegus monogyna ) and Dasineura fraxinea on ash ( Fraxinus excelsior ). [1] [2]

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References

  1. Bisby F.A.; Roskov Y.R.; Orrell T.M.; Nicolson D.; Paglinawan L.E.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.M.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Ouvrard D. (red.) (2011). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  2. Redfern, Margaret; Shirley, Peter; Bloxham, Michael (2011). British Plant Galls (Second ed.). Preston Montford: FSC Publications. ISBN   978 1 85153 284 1.