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Issue: Vol. 4205 No. 4: 8 Dec. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-12-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.1
Page range: 301–338
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Revision of early taxa of Australian gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)

Bionomics Ltd, 31 Dalgleish Street, Thebarton SA 5031, Australia.
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, c/o Smithsonian Institution MRC-168, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC20013-7012,USA.
Diptera Acacia cyclops Acacia implexa Acacia papyrocarpa Acacia ligulata Acacia longifolia Acacia maidenii Acacia oswaldii Acacia sophorae Acacia sophorae x Acacia oxycedrus Acacia stricta Callitris endlicheri Callitris glaucophylla Callitris gracilis Callistemon sp. Eucalyptus sp. Eucalyptus corymbosa Eucalyptus haemastoma Eucalyptus sideriphloia Frenela grass Leptospermum laevigatum Melaleuca sp. Melaleuca nodosa frigate Novara expedition Omalanthus populifolius plant galls

Abstract

Australian Cecidomyiidae described by Schiner (1868), Skuse (1888, 1890), Koebele (1893), Felt (1915), Edwards (1916) and Rübsaamen (1916), totalling 111 species and three subgenera, are revised. Chastomera Skuse, 1888 is confirmed to be a junior synonym of Haplusia Karsch, 1878 and Gonioclema Skuse, 1888 and Necrophlebia Skuse, 1888 are declared nomina dubia. Twenty-two species are placed to genus, an additional four species are placed to supertribe or subfamily, all of them redescribed. The remaining species are declared junior synonyms or nomina dubia. Diadiplosis koebelei (Koebele, 1893) is a new junior synonym of Diadiplosis plumbea (Skuse, 1888). Dasineura tomentosa Dorchin, 2011 is a new junior synonym of Dasineura frauenfeldi (Schiner, 1868). Sphenolasioptera Kolesik & Gagné gen. nov. (Cecidomyiinae: Lasiopterini) is erected to contain Sphenolasioptera vastatrix (Skuse, 1888) n. comb. The following genera are recorded from Australia for the first time: Ledomyia Kieffer (Cecidomyiinae: Ledomyiini), represented by L. vitulans (Skuse), n. comb.; Bremia Rondani (Cecidomyiinae: Aphidoletini), represented by B. actiosa (Skuse) n. comb. and B. oreas (Skuse) n. comb.; Divellepidosis Fedotova & Sidorenko (Porricondylinae: Porricondylini), represented by D. pallidina (Skuse) n. comb. and D. indubitata (Skuse) n. comb. Additions are made to the key to genera of Cecidomyiinae of Australia and Papua New Guinea (Kolesik 2014) to accomodate Bremia, Ledomyia and Sphenolasioptera.

 

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