Rabdophaga salicisbrassicoides

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Rabdophaga salicisbrassicoides
Willow Cabbage Gall Midge (Rabdophaga salicisbrassicoides) (10431660925).jpg
Willow Cabbage Gall Midge (Rabdophaga salicisbrassicoides) Boonville, CA
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Genus: Rabdophaga
Species:
R. salicisbrassicoides
Binomial name
Rabdophaga salicisbrassicoides
(Packard, 1869)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cecidomyia brassicoides Beutenmuller, 1892
  • Cecidomyia salicisbrassicoides Packard, 1869

Rabdophaga salicisbrassicoides, known generally as the willow rosette gall midge or willow cabbage gall midge, is a species of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. [1] [2] [3] [4] Their galls and larvae thrive in association with the mutualistic relationship between Formica neoclara and Chaitophorus aphids found on their host species Salix exigua . The larva overwinter in their galls, and adults emerge in late April. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Rabdophaga salicisbrassicoides Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  2. ↑ "Rabdophaga salicisbrassicoides species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. ↑ "Rabdophaga salicisbrassicoides". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  4. ↑ "Rabdophaga salicisbrassicoides Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  5. ↑ Savage, Amy M.; Peterson, Merrill A. (November 16, 2006). "Mutualism in a community context: the positive feedback between an ant–aphid mutualism and a gall-making midge". Oecologia. 151 (2): 280–291. doi:10.1007/s00442-006-0582-1. PMID   17106723. S2CID   24500913 . Retrieved 8 October 2021.

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