A review of the gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of Indonesia: taxonomy, biology and adult key to genera
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Kolesik, Peter
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Author
Gagné, Raymond J.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-09-07
4847
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journal article
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Thorodiplosis impatientis
Felt
[
Figs 40
a–j]
Thorodiplosis impatientis
Felt, 1921d: 89
.
Material examined
.
Type
male and female reared from a marginal roll on the upper leaf surface of
Impatiens platypetala
Lindl.
(Fig. 599 [
Fig. 40a
] in DvL & DvLR (1918)), at
Mt Gede
,
Cibodas
,
Java
,
15-vii-1920
(
NYSM
#a3153). Felt’s two slides contain two males and two females, all mounted whole and uncleared, with most body parts present but partially shriveled
.
Description.
Male
. Wing length
1.6 mm
, width
0.6 mm
. Antenna: basal node slightly longer than wide, internode as long as basal node, proximal node 1.5x length basal node, neck 2x length basal node [
Fig. 40i
]. Terminalia: gonocoxite splayed with low mesobasal lobe, gonostylus as long as gonocoxite, curved at distal third, setulose at basal third, carinate and setose beyond [
Figs 40h j
].
Female
. Wing length
2.2 mm
, width
0.8 mm
. Antenna as in
Figs 40c, d
. Terminalia: cerci setulose, sparsely setose, with pair of long, blunt, closely set sensory hairs at apex [
Fig. 40f
].
Pupa, larva
unknown.
Biology.
This species causes a marginal roll on the leaf of
Impatiens platypetala
(Balsaminaceae)
[
Figs 40a, b
]. The gall is figured in DvL & DvLR (1918, gall No. 599, Fig 599 [
Fig. 40a
]) and described by DvLR & DvL (1926) as follows. The margin of the leaf is rolled up for a small part of its length. The infected parts are white or yellowish and considerably thickened. The gall can be common locally.
Geographical distribution
.
This
species was reported from
Java
(DvLR & DvL 1914, 1918;
Felt
1921; DvLR & DvL 1926, 1941) from the following localities:
Pagergunung
, alt.
900 m
,
ix-1911
;
Paseh
, near
Bandung
, alt.
1000 m
,
xii-1915
;
Ciharum
, near
Cibeber
, alt.
1200 m
,
vi-1916
;
Mt Slamet
, alt
800 m
,
v-1918
;
Cisarua
, near
Cimahi
, alt.
1300 m
,
v-1918
;
Mt Gede
,
Cibeureum
, alt.
1700 m
,
ii-1916
;
Mt Gede
,
Cibodas
, alt.
1400 m
,
ix-1918
; alt.
1500 m
,
15-vii-1920
; alt.
2000 m
,
vii-1928
;
Mt Pangrango
, alt.
2300 m
,
vi-1920
;
Mt Salak
, alt.
800 m
,
vi-1918
;
vii-1920
;
x- 1921
;
Mt Cikuray
, alt.
1600 m
,
v-1925
;
Maseng
, near
Bogor
, alt.
600 m
,
vi-1925
.
Additionally
,
Purnama Hidayat
and
Mahindra Dewi Nur Aisyah
(
IPB
University
) (pers. comm.,
Fig. 40b
) found the galls at
Mount Gede Pangrango National Park
,
Cianjur
(
6°52’33”S
,
106°58’04”E
), alt.
1407 m
,
17-iv-2018
;
Kertajaya
,
Pasirkuda
, near
Cianjur
(
7°14’38”S
,
107°10’24”E
), alt.
504 m
,
10-iv-2018
;
Pagelaran
, near
Cianjur
(
7°17’45”S
,
107°7’7”E
, alt.
967 m
,
13- iv-2018
;
Mt Sari
,
Pamijahan
,
Bogor
(near
Mt. Bunder
) (
6°41’23”S
,
107°12’01”E
), alt.
967 m
,
17-iii-2018
.
FIGURES 40a–j.
Thorodiplosis impatientis
: a–b, galls on
Impatiens platypetala
: a, galls indicated with arrows (Fig. 599 of DvL & DvLR 1918); b, Cianjur near Mt Gede (photo by Purnama Hidayat and Mahindra Dewi Nur Aisyah, 2018); c–g, female: c, 1
st
and 2
nd
flagellomeres; d, antenna; e, tarsal claw and empodium; f, cerci and hypoproct (lateral); g, posterior part of wing; hj, male: h, terminalia (dorsal); i, 6
th
flagellomere (circumfila not visible on types); j, aedeagus of both type specimens (dorsal).
Species unplaced to genus
The following three species are too incompletely known to be placed in existing genera or to describe new genera for them. Their
types
were reared from distinctive galls on known plants, therefore more specimens should someday be found on which to base proper descriptions.