Asteromyia Explained

Asteromyia is a genus of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are about nine described species in Asteromyia.

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Asteromyia:

• Asteromyia carbonifera (Osten Sacken, 1862)
• Asteromyia chrysothamni Felt, 1918
• Asteromyia clarkei (Felt, 1909)
• Asteromyia euthamiae Gagne, 1968
• Asteromyia gutierreziae Felt, 1916
• Asteromyia laeviana (Felt, 1907)
• Asteromyia modesta (Felt, 1907)
• Asteromyia tumifica (Beutenmuller, 1907)
• Asteromyia urostigmatis (Tavares, 1917)

Further reading

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