Asphondylia bigeloviaebrassicoides
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 bigeloviaebrassicoides
Visual Description
Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, Asphondylia bigeloviaebrassicoides is a gall midge associated with the formation of distinct, cabbage-like galls on its host plant.[1] The galls appear as compact, leafy, or bud-like structures, often exhibiting a clustered, overlapping arrangement of modified plant tissues that resemble a miniature cabbage head.[1]
Ecology
Asphondylia bigeloviaebrassicoides is known to interact with the host plant Ericameria nauseosa (rabbitbrush).[2] The species was originally described as Cecidomyia bigeloviaebrassicoides by Townsend in 1893, based on the cabbage-like galls it induces on its host.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Cecidomyiidae / Asphondylia / bigeloviaebrassicoides constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asphondylia bigeloviaebrassicoides. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Asphondylia%20bigeloviaebrassicoides. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Asphondylia bigeloviaebrassicoides (Townsend, 1893). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1592656. Accessed 2026-07-14.