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Issue: Vol. 4413 No. 2: 23 Apr. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-04-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4413.2.8
Page range: 368–376
Abstract views: 108
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Procontarinia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) damaging fruit of mango, Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae), in China

Department of Plant Protection, College of Horticulture and Landscape, Tianjin Agricultural University, 22 Jinjing Road, Tianjin 300384, China.
Department of Plant Protection, College of Horticulture and Landscape, Tianjin Agricultural University, 22 Jinjing Road, Tianjin 300384, China.
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Biology for Crop Diseases and Insect Pests/Institute of Plant Protection, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning 530007, China.
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Biology for Crop Diseases and Insect Pests/Institute of Plant Protection, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning 530007, China.
Department of Plant Protection, College of Horticulture and Landscape, Tianjin Agricultural University, 22 Jinjing Road, Tianjin 300384, China.
Institute of Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300071, China.
Bionomics Limited, 31 Dalgleish Street, Thebarton SA 5031, Australia.
Diptera gall midge insect pest mango fruit South East Asia

Abstract

Larvae of a previously unknown species of gall midge were found feeding on young fruit of mango, Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae), in Guangxi Autonomous Region in southern China, causing severe damage to the crop. The new species is named Procontarinia fructiculi Jiao, Wang, Bu & Kolesik, its morphology is described, the basic biology is given, and the Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I (COI) mitochondrial gene segment is sequenced and compared to other congeners. Procontarinia contains now 16 described species, each feeding on mango. All but three species cause variously shaped galls on leaves, while P. mangiferae (Felt) malforms inflorescence and young leaves, and two species feed on fruit – P. frugivora Gagné causing deep lesions and P. fructiculi sp. nov. tunnel-like holes. Of the two fruit-feeding species, P. frugivora is confined to the Philippines while the new species has thus far been recorded only from southern China.

 

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