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Kieffer
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(
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)
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<bibRefCitation id="EF9A4B44FF9EFFD9FEEE5746FDA5F884" author="Kieffer, J. - J." box="[381,570,1866,1891]" pageId="1" pageNumber="174" pagination="514 - 517" refId="ref3841" refString="Kieffer, J. - J. (1914) Neue Gallmucken aus Sud-Afrika. Centralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten, 40 (2), 514 - 517." type="journal article" year="1914">Kieffer, 1914: 516</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9EFFD9FF04579DFF43F84C" bold="true" box="[151,220,1937,1963]" pageId="1" pageNumber="174">Types</emphasis>
. Male and female, reared by Louis Péringuey from an unspecified gall on
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plants collected near
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Town,
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in or before 1914. The types are presumably lost (
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). We are note designating a
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as the species is easily recognizable and there is no doubt about its identity.
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9DFFDAFF545094FEE4FF54" bold="true" box="[199,379,152,179]" pageId="2" pageNumber="175">Other material</emphasis>
.
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pupae,
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from stem galls
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on
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, at the edge of a sandy beach near the mouth of
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(
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,
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,
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, deposited at
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(SAM-DIP-A015535 to SAM-DIP-A015555) and
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.
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9DFFDAFF545124FEC6FEA4" bold="true" box="[199,345,296,323]" pageId="2" pageNumber="175">Description.</emphasis>
In addition to the generic characteristics, the species can be diagnosed by the following.
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9DFFDAFF545141FE93FE80" box="[199,268,333,359]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="175">Adult.</emphasis>
Head: clypeus and labrum with no setae, evenly covered with dense, long microtrichia; second palpal segment substantially narrower, 3.56.5x longer than first (
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) with constriction at basal 1/31/2. Flagellomere with circumfilar loops
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x height of total flagellomere length; on dorsal side regular, 1/111/
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height of flagellomere length (
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eg).
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. Colour: head black, antennae, legs and terminalia grey, thorax brown, abdomen orangey red. Wing 5.0
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long, 1.82.0 mm wide (n=19), length/width ratio 2.63.2.
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. Antenna: scape widened distally, longer than pedicel, pedicel uniformly wide, shorter than wide (
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); first and second flagellomere separated; flagellomere (
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) with basal node slightly longer than wide, internode and neck slightly shorter than basal node, distal node twice as long as wide, of uniform width.
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. Wing (
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Fig.
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) with rudimentary R
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positioned half way between arculus and distal end of R
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. Scutum and scutellum covered with dense, long microtichia. Tarsal claws: simple on all legs; dark at distal 1/3; straight at basal ¾, slightly bent and abruptly pointed at distal ¼; empodium 1.5 times longer than tarsal claws (
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). First tarsal segment without ventro-apical spur (
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Fig.
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).
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. Sclerites entire, rectangular, with trichoid sensilla close to anterior margin. Sternites 28 with setae sparse, loosely arranged in anterior, medial, posterior and lateral bands. Tergites 18 with sparse setae evenly distributed through sclerite. Terminalia (
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bd): gonostyle setulose at basal 1/3 dorsally and ventrally, dorso-distal claw ¼ length gonostyle length; ventro-distal area of gonostyle opposite distal claw covered with dense field of short setae; aedeagus slightly shorter than gonocoxite, substantially longer than cerci, slightly tapering distally, with two parallel rows of 1216 asetose apical sensoria dorsally and ventrally; hypoproct (
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) nearly as long as cerci, blunt posteriorly, with small postero-lateral lobe on either side, as long as cerci, with several setae distally.
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. Wing
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long (n=1, wings in remaining two females folded),
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wide), length/width ratio 3.0. Flagellomere (
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Fig.
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): node 3.5 times as long as wide, 7 times as long as neck. Terminalia (
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): cerci slightly longer than wide, hypoproct twice as wide as long in dorsal view, 3 times shorter than cerci. Otherwise as in male.
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Gall of
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on
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.
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(a) plants bearing galls, (b) gall with partially removed superficial tissue to reveal pupae inside chambers, (c) galls with stems protruding variable lengths from the leaf sheaths, with attached pupal skins left behind by emerged adults, (d) terminal part of gall with attached pupal skins. Localities (both Western Cape Province): (a) Koude Vlakte Nature Conservancy (photo by Jan-Hendrik Keet), bc: Sedgefield.
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9CFFDBFF045733FE8DF8BF" bold="true" box="[151,274,1855,1880]" pageId="3" pageNumber="176">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
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. af: male, gn: female. (a) head, (b) terminalia in dorsal view, (c) gonostyle in ventral view, (d) hypoproct in dorsal view, (d) fifth flagellomere in dorsal view, (e) fifth flagellomere in dorsal view, (f) fifth flagellomere in ventral view, (g) fifth flagellomere in lateral view, (h) palpi of four separate specimens inside pupa, (i) wing, (j) tarsal claws with empodium and pulvilli in ventral view, (k) tarsal claw with empodium and pulvillus in lateral view of specimens inside pupa, (l) terminalia in ventral view (position of omitted setae indicated with arrows), (m) first tarsomere, (n) terminalia in lateral view.
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. Colour of exuviae: anterior part brown, posterior grey; with adult present inside: abdomen red, remaining parts black (
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). Length
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(n=5). Antennal base with large acute horn ventrally and small round, double-peaked horn dorsally (
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). Facial horn cylindrical, 1.5 times wider than high (
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), surface pebbled (
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). Prothoracic spiracle strongly tapering, 3 times longer than wide at base, trachea ending at apex (
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). Abdominal spiracles sessile.
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. Colour orangey red. Length 4.0
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(n=6). Head (
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): capsule trapezoid in ventral and triangular in anterior view; postero-lateral apodemes not present; length of first antennal segment about ¼ of second, second small, as wide as long. Sternal spatula with two robust, pointed posterior teeth, dividend by deep V-shaped incision; shaft narrowed at anterior end, 2.5 times longer than teeth (
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). Anus ventral (
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). No papillae visible on body.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9BFFDCFF54520EFF6BFDFC" box="[199,244,514,539]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="177">Egg</emphasis>
. Elongate, rounded at both ends (
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Fig.
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). Length
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(n=5), width (0.140.17), length/width ratio 3.34.2.
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9BFFDCFF545245FEA4FD84" bold="true" box="[199,315,585,611]" pageId="4" pageNumber="177">Remarks.</emphasis>
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are rather small insects and the wing length of most of them is
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. With a wing length of up to
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,
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9BFFDCFD975262FD10FD60" box="[516,655,622,647]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="177">M. graminis</emphasis>
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is one of the largest species of the family. Interestingly, we know of another sizeable South African gall midge-an undescribed species causing bud galls on
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9BFFDCFBE2529DFB6BFD4C" box="[1137,1268,657,683]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="177">Combretum</emphasis>
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spp. that has a wing length of
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(Stefan Neser pers. comm.).
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9BFFDCFF045748FE8CF8BA" bold="true" box="[151,275,1860,1885]" pageId="4" pageNumber="177">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9BFFDCFE895749FE66F8BA" box="[282,505,1861,1885]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="177">Mitodiplosis graminis</emphasis>
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. ad: pupa, eh: larva, i: egg. (a) anterior part ventrally, arrow indicates facial horn, second prothoracic spiracle not drawn (b) contour of anterior part laterally, arrow indicates facial horn, (c) prothoracic spiracle, (d) facial horn ventrally, (e) last two segments in dorsal view, (f) head in ventral view, (g) head in anterior view, (h) sternal spatula, (i) eggs from inside of female abdomen.
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<subSubSection id="C311653EFF9AFFDDFF545094FCA9FD4C" pageId="5" pageNumber="178" type="biology_ecology">
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9AFFDDFF545094FEB8FF54" bold="true" box="[199,295,152,179]" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Biology.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9AFFDDFEBD5094FDBAFF55" box="[302,549,152,178]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Mitodiplosis graminis</emphasis>
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induces a stem gall on
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9AFFDDFCBF5094FC7BFF55" box="[812,996,152,178]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Ehrharta villosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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). The leaf blades on an infested stem become shortened, the stem internodes do not lengthen, and the leaf sheaths are thickened and widened, creating a witchs broom-like structure (
<figureCitation id="13302A30FF9AFFDDFDB050ECFD0BFF1C" box="[547,660,224,251]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="2.[151,250,1907,1932]" captionTargetBox="[193,1394,1217,1880]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[186,1401,1209,1888]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURE 1. Gall of Mitodiplosis graminis on Ehrharta villosa. (a) plants bearing galls, (b) gall with partially removed superficial tissue to reveal pupae inside chambers, (c) galls with stems protruding variable lengths from the leaf sheaths, with attached pupal skins left behind by emerged adults, (d) terminal part of gall with attached pupal skins. Localities (both Western Cape Province): (a) Koude Vlakte Nature Conservancy (photo by Jan-Hendrik Keet), bc: Sedgefield." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3241232/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Figs 1a, c</figureCitation>
). The superficial tissue layers of the gall (i.e. malformed leaf sheaths and blades) become grey and senescent while the internal tissue (i.e. malformed stem) stays soft and green (
<figureCitation id="13302A30FF9AFFDDFAFC5108FF2CFEA4" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="2.[151,250,1907,1932]" captionTargetBox="[193,1394,1217,1880]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[186,1401,1209,1888]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURE 1. Gall of Mitodiplosis graminis on Ehrharta villosa. (a) plants bearing galls, (b) gall with partially removed superficial tissue to reveal pupae inside chambers, (c) galls with stems protruding variable lengths from the leaf sheaths, with attached pupal skins left behind by emerged adults, (d) terminal part of gall with attached pupal skins. Localities (both Western Cape Province): (a) Koude Vlakte Nature Conservancy (photo by Jan-Hendrik Keet), bc: Sedgefield." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3241232/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Fig. 1c</figureCitation>
). There are 2
<specimenCount id="9D0DFD3CFF9AFFDDFEC55125FE5FFEA5" box="[342,448,296,323]" pageId="5" pageNumber="178" type="larva">20 larvae</specimenCount>
, and later pupae, inside separate larval chambers within the malformed stem tissue (
<figureCitation id="13302A30FF9AFFDDFAFC5124FF2BFE80" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="2.[151,250,1907,1932]" captionTargetBox="[193,1394,1217,1880]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[186,1401,1209,1888]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURE 1. Gall of Mitodiplosis graminis on Ehrharta villosa. (a) plants bearing galls, (b) gall with partially removed superficial tissue to reveal pupae inside chambers, (c) galls with stems protruding variable lengths from the leaf sheaths, with attached pupal skins left behind by emerged adults, (d) terminal part of gall with attached pupal skins. Localities (both Western Cape Province): (a) Koude Vlakte Nature Conservancy (photo by Jan-Hendrik Keet), bc: Sedgefield." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3241232/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Fig. 1b</figureCitation>
). Galls with more larvae are longer than those with fewer larvae. The malformed stem eventually grows out so that it protrudes from the leaf sheaths (
<figureCitation id="13302A30FF9AFFDDFDD7517CFD0DFE6C" box="[580,658,368,395]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="2.[151,250,1907,1932]" captionTargetBox="[193,1394,1217,1880]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[186,1401,1209,1888]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURE 1. Gall of Mitodiplosis graminis on Ehrharta villosa. (a) plants bearing galls, (b) gall with partially removed superficial tissue to reveal pupae inside chambers, (c) galls with stems protruding variable lengths from the leaf sheaths, with attached pupal skins left behind by emerged adults, (d) terminal part of gall with attached pupal skins. Localities (both Western Cape Province): (a) Koude Vlakte Nature Conservancy (photo by Jan-Hendrik Keet), bc: Sedgefield." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3241232/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Fig. 1c</figureCitation>
) enabling an unhindered emergence of the gall midge from the stems surface (
<figureCitation id="13302A30FF9AFFDDFF6A5198FED3FE48" box="[249,332,404,431]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="2.[151,250,1907,1932]" captionTargetBox="[193,1394,1217,1880]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[186,1401,1209,1888]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURE 1. Gall of Mitodiplosis graminis on Ehrharta villosa. (a) plants bearing galls, (b) gall with partially removed superficial tissue to reveal pupae inside chambers, (c) galls with stems protruding variable lengths from the leaf sheaths, with attached pupal skins left behind by emerged adults, (d) terminal part of gall with attached pupal skins. Localities (both Western Cape Province): (a) Koude Vlakte Nature Conservancy (photo by Jan-Hendrik Keet), bc: Sedgefield." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3241232/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Fig. 1d</figureCitation>
).
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9AFFDDFEF75198FD81FE49" box="[356,542,404,430]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Ehrharta villosa</emphasis>
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produces long underground stolons with numerous stems per plant. At Sedgefield (
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,
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) in 2018, only few stems per ground area were infested by
<taxonomicName id="4C0B4D36FF9AFFDDFB5C51B5FAC4FE35" box="[1231,1371,441,466]" class="Insecta" family="Cecidomyiidae" genus="Mitodiplosis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="178" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="graminis">
<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9AFFDDFB5C51B5FAC4FE35" box="[1231,1371,441,466]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">M. graminis</emphasis>
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, with about 50100% galls being parasitised by a platygastrid and possibly also by other parasitic wasps. Interestingly, a few empty larval chambers of
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9AFFDDFD95520DFD0EFDFD" box="[518,657,513,538]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">M. graminis</emphasis>
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were found to be occupied by
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9AFFDDFC61520DFB02FDFD" box="[1010,1181,512,539]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Anguina woodi</emphasis>
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, a large, host specific, gall forming nematode. The nematode is an autonomous gall producer (
<bibRefCitation id="EF9A4B44FF9AFFDDFC5D5229FB07FDD8" author="Swart, A. &amp; Subbotin, S. A. &amp; Tiedt, L. R. &amp; Riley, I. T." box="[974,1176,548,575]" pageId="5" pageNumber="178" pagination="129 - 144" refId="ref3873" refString="Swart, A., Subbotin, S. A., Tiedt, L. R. &amp; Riley, I. T. (2004) Anguina woodi sp. n. (Tylenchida: Anguinidae) from dune grass, Ehrharta villosa, in South Africa. Nematology, 6 (1), 129 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 156854104323073008" type="journal article" year="2004">
Swart
<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9AFFDDFB895229FBD1FDD9" box="[1050,1102,548,574]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">et al</emphasis>
. 2004
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) and it seems unlikely that it is involved in a mutualistic relationship with the gall midge, as is found between the nematodes of the genus
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9AFFDDFF045260FE88FD61" box="[151,279,620,646]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Fergusobia</emphasis>
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(Sphaerularioidea:
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:
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) and the gall flies of the genus
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9AFFDDFB325261FAB0FD61" box="[1185,1327,621,646]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Fergusonina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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:
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) in Australasia (e.g.
<bibRefCitation id="EF9A4B44FF9AFFDDFDBF529CFCB5FD4C" author="Taylor, G. S. &amp; Davies, K. A." box="[556,810,656,683]" pageId="5" pageNumber="178" pagination="927 - 957" refId="ref3944" refString="Taylor, G. S. &amp; Davies, K. A. (2010) The gall fly, Fergusonina lockharti Tonnoir (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) and description of its associated nematode, Fergusobia brittenae sp. nov. (Tylenchida: Neotylenchidae). Journal of Natural History, 44 (15 - 16), 927 - 957. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930903383545" type="journal article" year="2010">Taylor &amp; Davies 2010</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9AFFDDFF5452B8FD9BFD28" bold="true" box="[199,516,692,719]" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Geographical distribution.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B97FEAA7FF9AFFDDFD9852B8FD5DFD29" box="[523,706,692,718]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Ehrharta villosa</emphasis>
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occurs on sand dunes or sandy soils in the proximity of the sea in the
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and the
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provinces of
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.
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between the seven localities at which
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has been found thus far covers most of the plants distribution in the
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discovered the galls from which he reared the
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male and female (now presumably lost) near
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in or before 1914.
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found galls and larvae and reared pupae, males and females from plants collected near
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),
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, on
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<date id="FFB51075FF9AFFDDFB905364FB1FFC65" box="[1027,1152,872,898]" pageId="5" pageNumber="178" value="2018-06-22">22-vi-2018</date>
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(
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bd), and galls at
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(
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,
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) on
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<date id="FFB51075FF9AFFDDFD295380FCBDFC41" box="[698,802,908,934]" pageId="5" pageNumber="178" value="2014-02-03">3-ii-2014</date>
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(emergence completed before this day),
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beach
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(
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,
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) on
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and
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,
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<collectorName id="26FE5363FF9AFFDDFB8E53BDFBC3FC2C" box="[1053,1116,945,971]" pageId="5" pageNumber="178">Town</collectorName>
(
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,
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) in
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<date id="FFB51075FF9AFFDDFA1653BDFF4CFC08" pageId="5" pageNumber="178" value="2002-10">x- 2002</date>
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.
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found galls at
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(
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,
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), south of
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,
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,
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south east of
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, on
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(
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).
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found galls that contained pupae at
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(
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,
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),
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,
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north of
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, on
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.
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is to be ascertained if the gall midge occurs also in the remaining part of
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natural distribution range, namely in the
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.
</paragraph>
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