Asphondylia imbricata
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 imbricata
Visual Description
Asphondylia imbricata is a gall midge species. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, individuals exhibit the characteristic delicate, slender body form typical of the family Cecidomyiidae, with long, thin legs and antennae.[1]
Biology and Ecology
Asphondylia imbricata is a gall-forming insect. Like other members of the genus Asphondylia, it exhibits host specialization, inducing the formation of galls on specific host plants.[2] Documented host plants for this species include members of the genus Symphyotrichum, such as Symphyotrichum pilosum and Symphyotrichum lateriflorum.[3]
The species was described by Plakidas in 2016.[4]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Cecidomyiidae / Asphondylia / imbricata constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ T. Jermy; Árpád Szentesi. Why are there not more herbivorous insect species?. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 2021. https://doi.org/10.17109/azh.67.2.119.2021.
- ↑ Asphondylia imbricata. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Asphondylia%20imbricata. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Asphondylia imbricata Plakidas, 2016. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/11910215. Accessed 2026-07-14.