Development of New Polymorphic Microsatellite Loci for the Barley Stem Gall Midge, Mayetiola hordei (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from an Enriched Library

Development of polymorphic microsatellite markers of Obolodiplosis robiniae (Haldeman) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), a North American pest invading Asia.

Microsatellite markers were developed for epidemiological studies on the black locust gall midge Obolodiplosis robiniae (Haldeman) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), a native North America pest introduced to Europe and Asia. Polymorphism at each locus was tested on 68 individuals from six populations reared from infected host leaves of Robinia pseudoacacia L. collected in China. Fourteen loci were found...

Isolation and Characterization of Microsatellite Loci in the Asian Rice Gall Midge (Orseolia oryzae) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)

Microsatellite loci were isolated from the genomic DNA of the Asian rice gall midge, Orseolia oryzae (Wood-Mason) using a hybridization capture approach. A total of 90 non-redundant primer pairs, representing unique loci, were designed. These simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers represented di (72%), tri (15.3%), and complex repeats (12.7%). Three biotypes of gall midge (20 individuals for each...

A New Species of Gall Midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Subterranean Stem Galls of Licania Michauxii (Chrysobalanaceae) in Florida

Transcriptomic Analyses of Secreted Proteins From the Salivary Glands of Wheat Midge Larvae

Both the wheat midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana) (Géhin) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and the Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor) (Say) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) belong to a group of insects called gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), and both are destructive pests of wheat. From Hessian fly larvae, a large number of genes have been identified to encode secreted salivary gland proteins (SSGPs), which a...

The Acer seed midge, Acumyia acericola, an unusual new species and genus of Lasiopteridi (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) with aciculate ovipositor and larval puparium

The Acer seed midge, a new species and genus of gall midge, Acumyia acericola (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), is described on the basis of larval, pupal and adult specimens from collections made at Hainault Forest and Lambourne Common, Essex, and other parts of the UK, during 2006–08. The new genus is distinguished from all known genera of Cecidomyiidae by the combination of a larval puparium and an ...