Asphondylia resinosa
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 resinosa
Visual Description
Asphondylia resinosa is a species of gall midge. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the adult midge exhibits the characteristic delicate, slender morphology typical of the family Cecidomyiidae, with long, thin legs and antennae.[1]
Biology and Ecology
Asphondylia resinosa is a gall-inducing midge, first described by R.J. Gagné in 1990.[2] It is known to induce galls on the creosote bush, Larrea tridentata (Zygophyllaceae).[3][4] The species occurs in Mexico, where it is one of several Asphondylia species documented.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Cecidomyiidae / Asphondylia / resinosa constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asphondylia resinosa Gagné, 1990. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1592713. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ Asphondylia resinosa. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Asphondylia%20resinosa. Accessed 2026-07-14.