Asphondylia eupatorii
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 eupatorii
Visual Description
Asphondylia eupatorii is a gall-inducing midge. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the adult insects exhibit the characteristic delicate, slender body form typical of the family Cecidomyiidae, with long, thin legs and antennae.[1]
Biology and Ecology
Asphondylia eupatorii is a gall-inducing species within the family Cecidomyiidae.[2] It has been documented to interact with the host plant Ageratina altissima.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Cecidomyiidae / Asphondylia / eupatorii constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Julio Miguel Grandez‐Rios; Walter Santos de Araújo; Valéria Cid Maia. Cecidomyiidae (Diptera): richness and distribution in the Amazonian forest. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 2026. https://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2026.66.025.
- ↑ Asphondylia eupatorii. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Asphondylia%20eupatorii. Accessed 2026-07-14.