Asphondylia clavata
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 clavata
Visual Description
Asphondylia clavata is a species of gall midge. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the adult insects exhibit the characteristic delicate, slender body form typical of the family Cecidomyiidae.[1] They possess long, thin legs and wings that are held over the abdomen when at rest. The coloration is generally muted, often appearing in shades of brown or grey, which may provide camouflage on their host plants.[1]
Biology and Ecology
Asphondylia clavata is a gall-inducing midge. It is specifically known to induce galls on the creosote bush, Larrea tridentata (Zygophyllaceae), in North America.[2][3] The species is commonly referred to as the Creosote Bush Club Gall Midge. While it has been documented in Mexico, its range extends across the distribution of its host plant in North America.[4]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Cecidomyiidae / Asphondylia / clavata constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asphondylia clavata Gagné, 1990. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1592784. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Asphondylia clavata. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Asphondylia%20clavata. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Instituto de Fitosanidad, Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo; Alondra G. Pérez-Garcia; Armando Equihua-Martínez; Benjamín Barrios-Díaz; Programa de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Facultad de Ingeniería Agrohidráulica BUAP; Juli Pujade‐Villar; Universitat de Barcelona; M. Skuhravá; Praha 4, Bítovská 1227/9. Una nueva especie de mosquito agallador 𝐴𝑠𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑦𝑙𝑖𝑎 𝑙𝑒𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑒𝑛𝑎 sp. nov. (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) causando agallas sobre 𝐿𝑒𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑒𝑛𝑎 spp. (Caesalpiniaceae) en México. Dugesiana. 2023. https://doi.org/10.32870/dugesiana.v30i1.7254.