Massalongia (fly)

Massalongia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily:	Cecidomyiinae
Genus:	Massalongia ; Kieffer, 1890

Last updated September 25, 2025

Massalongia is a genus of flies in the family Cecidomyiidae. The larvae induce galls on birches.^[1]^[2]

In 1855, the genus was named after Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber.^[3]

Species

The following six species have been described in this genus:^[2]^[1]

Massalongia altaica Fedotova, 1990
Massalongia bachmaieri Möhn, 1954
Massalongia betulifolia Harris, 1974
Massalongia nakamuratetsui Elsayed & Tokuda 2020
Massalongia papyrifera (Gagné, 1967)
Massalongia rubra (Kieffer, 1890)

References

1 2 R.J. Gagne; M. Jaschof (2021). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (5th ed.). ISBN 978-0-9863941-3-3. Wikidata Q109561625.
1 2 Ayman Khamis Elsayed; Marcela Skuhravá; Kazuki Ohta; Satoshi Yoshida; Makoto Tokuda (11 August 2020). "Revision of the birch-associated genus Massalongia (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae), with description of a new species from Japan and a taxonomic key to worldwide species". ZooKeys . 958: 1–27. doi: 10.3897/ZOOKEYS.958.54300 . ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 7434807 . PMID 32863715. Wikidata Q99629732.
↑ Körber, G.W. (1855). Systema lichenum Germaniae (in Latin). Breslau: Trewendt & Granier. p. 109. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.

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[gagne2021-1] 1 2 R.J. Gagne; M. Jaschof (2021). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (5th ed.). ISBN 978-0-9863941-3-3. Wikidata Q109561625.

[Elsayed-2] 1 2 Ayman Khamis Elsayed; Marcela Skuhravá; Kazuki Ohta; Satoshi Yoshida; Makoto Tokuda (11 August 2020). "Revision of the birch-associated genus Massalongia (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae), with description of a new species from Japan and a taxonomic key to worldwide species". ZooKeys . 958: 1–27. doi: 10.3897/ZOOKEYS.958.54300 . ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 7434807 . PMID 32863715. Wikidata Q99629732.

[3] Körber, G.W. (1855). Systema lichenum Germaniae (in Latin). Breslau: Trewendt & Granier. p. 109. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.

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