Asphondylia sarothamni
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 sarothamni
Visual Description
Asphondylia sarothamni is a gall-inducing midge. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the adult midge exhibits a slender, delicate body typical of the family Cecidomyiidae, with long, thin legs and wings that are held over the abdomen when at rest.[1] The coloration is generally muted, often appearing brownish or greyish, which may provide camouflage on its host plant.[1]
Biology and Ecology
Asphondylia sarothamni is a gall-inducing insect known for its complex life cycle involving seasonal host organ alternation.[2] It induces galls on the leaf buds of Cytisus (Sarothamnus) scoparius during the winter and shifts to inducing galls on the pods of the same plant species in the summer.
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Cecidomyiidae / Asphondylia / sarothamni constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Nami Uechi; Junichi Yukawa; Makoto Tokuda; Nina Maryana; Tomoko Ganaha‐Kikumura; Wanggyu Kim. Description of the Asian chili pod gall midge, Asphondylia capsicicola sp. n., with comparative notes on Asphondylia gennadii (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) that induces the same sort of pod gall on the same host plant species in the Mediterranean region. Applied Entomology and Zoology. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13355-016-0461-0.