Asphondylia photiniae
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 photiniae
Visual Description
Asphondylia photiniae is a gall-inducing insect. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the species is associated with the formation of galls on its host plants, specifically Heteromeles arbutifolia (toyon).[1] The galls appear as distinct, often spherical or irregular growths on the fruit or other plant tissues, which serve as the developmental environment for the larvae.[1]
Ecology
Asphondylia photiniae is a gall-inducing midge that interacts with Heteromeles arbutifolia (toyon).[2] It was described by Arthur Earl Pritchard in 1953.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Cecidomyiidae / Asphondylia / photiniae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asphondylia photiniae. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Asphondylia%20photiniae. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Asphondylia photiniae. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphondylia_photiniae. Accessed 2026-07-14.