Miastor

Miastor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily:	Winnertziinae
Tribe:	Heteropezini
Genus:	Miastor Meinert, 1864

Miastor is a genus of gall midges and wood midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are about seven described species in Miastor. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Miastor:

• Miastor agricolae Marshall, 1896
• Miastor castaneae Wyatt, 1967
• Miastor difficilis Marshall, 1896
• Miastor mastersi Skuse, 1888
• Miastor metraloas Meinert, 1864
• Miastor procax Skuse, 1888
• † Aprionus vlaskini (Fedotova & Perkovsky, 2007)

References

1. "Miastor Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
2. "Miastor". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
3. "Miastor genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

Further reading

• Gagné, R. J. (1989). The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America. Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-0-8014-1918-8.
• Gagné, R. J. (1994). The Gall Midges of the Neotropical Region. Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-0-8014-2786-2.
• Gagné, Raymond J.; Jaschhof, Mathias (2017). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World, Fourth Edition (PDF). Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture.
• McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN   978-0-660-10731-8.
• Gagné, Raymond J.; Jaschhof, Mathias (2014). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (PDF) (Report). Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA.