Revision of early taxa of Australian gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)
Author
Kolesik, Peter
Author
Gagné, Raymond J.
text
Zootaxa
2016
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4
301
338
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.1
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Cecidomyia eucalypti
Skuse, 1890
[
Fig. 2
e]
Cecidomyia
(
Diplosis
)
eucalypt
i
Skuse, 1890
: 381
.
Material studied.
Female, “Botany, N.S.W. (Froggatt and Skuse).” The type is lost.
Associated gall.
The type was “bred from woody swellings on the stems of
Eucalyptus haemastoma
in December [
Fig. 2
e].”
Description.
Colour (extracted from
Skuse (1890))
: scape and pedicel greyish ochreous, flegellomeres cinereous; palpus greyish ochreous; thorax glossy brown, with two convergent pale ochreous lines to scutellum, pectus brownish, pleurae, scutellum and metanotum ochreous; halteres ochreous, paler yellow at stem base, with yellowish pubescence; abdomen ochreous to brownish ochreous, densely covered with yellowish hairs; ovipositor yellow; legs brown, femora beneath and at tip, tibia at tip and last three tarsomeres pale yellow; wings hyaline, densely covered with brownish pubescence, veins brownish.
Remarks.
This type is lost but the species can be redescribed in the future once new specimens are reared from the galls. We consider this an unplaced species of
Cecidomyiinae
.