New species of Rhopalomyia and Dasineura (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) associated with Prosopis caldenia Burkart (Fabaceae) in Argentina
Author
Cornejo, Laura Gabriela
Author
Molas, Bárbara Mariana Corró
Author
Kuzmanich, Nicolás
Author
Martínez, Juan José
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-10-30
4691
2
161
170
journal article
25009
10.11646/zootaxa.4691.2.5
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1175-5326
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Genus
Dasineura
Rondani, 1840
Dasineura
is an extremely diverse genus with 476 species around the world, included in the tribe
Dasineurini
, which comprises fifty more genera (
Gagné & Jaschhof 2017
). It is a polyphyletic genus, and the species assigned here cause mainly simple galls, such as leaf rolls and bud swellings or live freely in flower head (
Gagné 2018
).
Dasineura
species have male flagellomeres with necks; palpus are four segmented; vein R5 joining C at least slightly before the wing apex; tarsal claws with basal tooth; sternites II–VII with anterior pair of trichoid sensilla; females with tergite VIII divided longitudinally into two elongate sclerites and cerci fused. Males with gonocoxal mediobasal lobes well-developed, clasping the aedeagus. Mature larva usually with spatula clove-shaped and with two groups of three papillae on each side of the spatula, and eight terminal papillae.