Redescription of Asphondylia morivorella (NAITO), comb. n. (Diptera : Cecidomyiidae), with Notes on Its Bionomics
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Saltbush-associated Asphondylia species (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in the Mediterranean Basin and their chalcidoid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea).
Numerous species of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) have been recorded from saltbush (Chenopodiaceae: Atriplex) around the world but only 11 of them belong to the large cecidomyiid genus Asphondylia. Of these, two species were described in the late 19th century from complex bud galls on Atriplex halimus in the Mediterranean Basin. In the present study Asphondylia punica is redescribed, A. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Entomology and Zoology
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0003-6862,1347-605X
DOI: 10.1303/aez.18.22