Asphondylia villosa
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 villosa
Visual Description
Asphondylia villosa, commonly known as the Creosote Woolly Gall Midge, is a small dipteran insect. Based on observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, the species is characterized by its delicate, slender body typical of gall midges.[1] The adults exhibit long, thin legs and wings that are often held flat or slightly angled over the abdomen when at rest. The body coloration is generally muted, often appearing brownish or greyish, which may provide camouflage on its host plant.[1]
Ecology and Host Association
Asphondylia villosa is known to interact with the creosote bush, Larrea tridentata.[2] As a member of the Cecidomyiidae family, it is a gall-forming midge, and its larvae induce the formation of galls on this host plant.[3]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Cecidomyiidae / Asphondylia / villosa constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Asphondylia villosa. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Asphondylia%20villosa. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Asphondylia villosa Gagné, 1990. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1592630. Accessed 2026-07-14.