Dicrodiplosis Explained

Dicrodiplosis is a genus of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are about 15 described species in Dicrodiplosis.

Species

These 15 species belong to the genus Dicrodiplosis:

• Dicrodiplosis antennata Felt, 1912

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• Dicrodiplosis bifurcata Grover, 1979

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• Dicrodiplosis californica Felt, 1912

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• Dicrodiplosis coccidarum Felt, 1911

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• Dicrodiplosis cylindriformis Kashyap, 1988

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• Dicrodiplosis fasciata Kieffer, 1895

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• Dicrodiplosis fulva (Felt, 1915)

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• Dicrodiplosis guatemalensis Felt

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• Dicrodiplosis kimberleyensis Harris, 1968

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• Dicrodiplosis manihoti Harris, 1981

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• Dicrodiplosis marikovskii Fedotova, 2006

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• Dicrodiplosis minuta Shinji, 1939

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• Dicrodiplosis multifila (Felt, 1908)

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• Dicrodiplosis pseudococci (Felt, 1914)

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• Dicrodiplosis quercina Felt, 1907

^{i c g}Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

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.