Rabdophaga Explained

Rabdophaga is genus of flies in the family of gall midges Cecidomyiidae. There are 105 species distributed through Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.^[1] Most species of Rabdophaga gall willows (Salix sp.); one exception is R. giraudiana which galls the stems of poplars (Populus sp.).^[2]

Species

• Rabdophaga absobrina (Felt, 1907)
• Rabdophaga albipennis (Loew, 1850)
• Rabdophaga auritae
• Rabdophaga californica (Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga caulicola (Felt, 1909)
• Rabdophaga cephalanthi (Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga cinerearum
• Rabdophaga clausilia (Bremi, 1847)
• Rabdophaga clavifex (Kieffer 1891)
• Rabdophaga consobrina (Felt, 1907)
• Rabdophaga degeerii (Bremi, 1847)
• Rabdophaga deletrix (Rübsaamen, 1916)
• Rabdophaga dubiosa (Kieffer, 1913)
• Rabdophaga essigi (Felt, 1926)
• Rabdophaga exsiccans (Rübsaamen, 1916)
• Rabdophaga frater (Cockerell, 1890)
• Rabdophaga gemmae (Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga gemmicola (Kieffer, 1896)
• Rabdophaga gemmicolata
• Rabdophaga giraudiana (Kieffer, 1898)
• Rabdophaga globosa (Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga heterobia (Loew 1850)
• Rabdophaga hildebrandi (Felt, 1928)
• Rabdophaga insignis (Kieffer, 1906)
• Rabdophaga iteobia (Kieffer, 1890)
• Rabdophaga iteophila (Loew 1850)
• Rabdophaga jaapi (Rübsaamen, 1916)
• Rabdophaga justini (Barnes, 1935)
• Rabdophaga karschi (Kieffer, 1891)
• Rabdophaga latebrosa (Felt, 1909)
• Rabdophaga latipennis (Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga lattkei (Stelter 1994)
• Rabdophaga lindhardti (Stelter 1989)
• Rabdophaga marginemtorquens (Bremi, 1847)
• Rabdophaga nervorum (Kieffer, 1895)
• Rabdophaga nielsenii (Kieffer, 1906)
• Rabdophaga normaniana (Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga occidentalis (Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga occidua (Gagne, 1989)
• Rabdophaga oculiperda
• Rabdophaga oleiperda (Guercio, 1918)
• Rabdophaga palliumparens (Stelter, 1977)
• Rabdophaga perocculta (Cockerell, 1904)
• Rabdophaga persimilis (Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga pierreana (Kieffer, 1909)
• Rabdophaga pierrei (Kieffer, 1896)
• Rabdophaga podagrae (Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga populi (Felt, 1907)
• Rabdophaga porrecta (Felt, 1915)
• Rabdophaga pulvini (Kieffer, 1891)
• Rabdophaga purpureaperda (Barnes, 1935)
• Rabdophaga ramuscula (Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga repenticornua (Bland, 2001)
• Rabdophaga repentiperda (Stelter, 1982)
• Rabdophaga repentis
• Rabdophaga rigidae (Osten Sacken, 1862)
• Rabdophaga rosacea (Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga rosaeformis (Kovalev, 1967)
• Rabdophaga rosaria (Loew, 1850)
• Rabdophaga rosariella (Kieffer, 1897)
• Rabdophaga roskami (Stelter, 1989)
• Rabdophaga salicifoliae (Shinji, 1942)
• Rabdophaga saliciperda (Dufour, 1841)
• Rabdophaga salicis (Schrank, 1803)
• Rabdophaga salicisbatatus (Osten Sacken, 1878)
• Rabdophaga salicisbrassicoides (Packard, 1869)
• Rabdophaga saliciscornu (Osten Sacken, 1878)
• Rabdophaga salsolata Gagne, 2004
• Rabdophaga santolinae (Tavares, 1902)
• Rabdophaga schicki (Stelter, 1982)
• Rabdophaga schreiteri (Stelter 1982)
• Rabdophaga schwangarti (Rübsaamen, 1916)
• Rabdophaga setubalensis (Tavares, 1902)
• Rabdophaga sodalitatis (Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga strobilina (Bremi, 1847)
• Rabdophaga strobiloides (Osten Sacken, 1862)
• Rabdophaga terminalis (Loew 1850)
• Rabdophaga timberlakei (Felt, 1916)
• Rabdophaga triandraperda (Barnes, 1935)
• Rabdophaga tumidosae(Felt, 1908)
• Rabdophaga vigemmae (Stelter, 1989)
• Rabdophaga viminalis (Westwood, 1847)
• Rabdophaga viva (Rapp, 1946)
• Rabdophaga walshii (Felt, 1908)

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Previous species

• Rabdophaga ramicola Rübsaamen, 1915 is a synonym of Rabdophaga degeerii (Bremi, 1847)^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Taxonomy for Rabdophaga. insectoid.info. 26 November 2017. 1 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201033301/http://insectoid.info/insecta/diptera/cecidomyiidae/rabdophaga_genus/. dead.
2. Book: Redfern. Margaret. Shirley. Peter. Boxham. Michael. British Plant Galls. 2011. Field Study Council. Shrewsbury. 978-185153-284-1. 282–299. Second.
3. Web site: Rabdophaga. Encyclopedia of Life. 1 August 2017.
4. Web site: Ellis. W N. Rabdophaga. Plant Parasites of Europe. 26 November 2017.
5. Web site: Rabdophaga Westwood, 1847. PESI portal. 27 November 2017.
6. Web site: Ellis. W N. Rabdophaga degeerii (Bremi, 1847). Plant Parasites of Europe. 17 April 2024.