Mikiola fagi
Appearance
Mikiola fagi | |
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Gall formed by Mikiola fagi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
Genus: | Mikiola |
Species: | M. fagi
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Binomial name | |
Mikiola fagi (Hartig, 1839)
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Mikiola fagi, the beech gall midge is a gall-causing fly in the family Cecidomyiidae.[1] This species was first described by Theodor Hartig in 1839.
Range
[edit]According to observations of the species aggregated on GBIF, this fly spreads across Europe.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Swanton, Ernest William Brockton (1912). British plant-galls; a classified text book of cecidology. London,Methuen & co. ltd. p. 408.
- ^ Mikiola fagi (Hartig, 1839) in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-10-11.