Asphondylia auripila
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Cecidomyiidae
- Genus: Asphondylia
- Species: Asphondylia auripila
Visual Description
Asphondylia auripila is a gall-inducing midge. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the adult insects exhibit a delicate, slender body typical of the family Cecidomyiidae.[1] They possess long, thin legs and antennae, and their wings are generally clear or slightly dusky with reduced venation, which is characteristic of the genus Asphondylia.[1]
Ecology
Asphondylia auripila is a gall-inducing species. It has been identified as a "superhost" for gall-inducing species on the creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) in temperate zones.[2] Interactions have also been recorded with other taxa, including various Hemiptera and the beetle Cysteodemus armatus.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Cecidomyiidae / Asphondylia / auripila constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Rita de Cássia Oliveira dos Santos; Marcus Emanuel Barroncas Fernandes; Marlucia Bonifacio. Are the Species of the Genus Avicennia L. (Acanthaceae) a “Superhost” Plants of Gall-Inducing Arthropods in Mangrove Forests?. InTech eBooks. 2013. https://doi.org/10.5772/55454.
- ↑ Asphondylia auripila. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Asphondylia%20auripila. Accessed 2026-07-14.