| Mycophila speyeri | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
| Genus: | Mycophila |
| Species: | M. speyeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Mycophila speyeri (Barnes, 1926) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Mycophila speyeri is a species of wood midge in the family Cecidomyiidae first described by Horace Francis Barnes in 1926. [2] [1] [3] [4] [5]
Cecidomyiidae is a family of flies known as gall midges or gall gnats. As the name implies, the larvae of most gall midges feed within plant tissue, creating abnormal plant growths called galls.
A species description is a formal description of a newly discovered species, usually in the form of a scientific paper. Its purpose is to give a clear description of a new species of organism and explain how it differs from species which have been described previously or are related. The species description often contains photographs or other illustrations of the type material and states in which museums it has been deposited. The publication in which the species is described gives the new species a formal scientific name. Some 1.9 million species have been identified and described, out of some 8.7 million that may actually exist. Millions more have become extinct.
Horace Francis Barnes was an English entomologist who specialised in Diptera.
