Mycophila

Mycophila
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily:	Micromyinae
Tribe:	Aprionini
Genus:	Mycophila Felt, 1911
Type species
Mycophila fungicola Felt, 1911

Mycophila is a genus of wood midges, insects in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are seven described species in Mycophila. ^[1] The genus was established by Ephraim Porter Felt in 1911. ^[1]

Species

• Mycophila echinoidea Bu & Mo, 1996
• Mycophila fungicola Felt, 1911
• Mycophila indica Nayar, 1949
• Mycophila lampra Pritchard, 1947
• Mycophila longispina Bu & Mo, 1996
• Mycophila nikoleii Möhn, 1960
• Mycophila speyeri (Barnes, 1926)

References

1. 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.

Further reading

• 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 18, 2014.