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Issue: Vol. 4691 No. 2: 30 Oct. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-10-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4691.2.5
Page range: 161–170
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New species of Rhopalomyia and Dasineura (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) associated with Prosopis caldenia Burkart (Fabaceae) in Argentina

Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina. Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Av. Uruguay 151, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Av. Uruguay 151, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Av. Vélez Sarsfield 1611, Córdoba, Argentina
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina. Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Av. Uruguay 151, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
Diptera Caldén Gall midges Neotropical Region Taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of cecidomyiids were identified on Prosopis caldenia Burkart (Fabaceae) in Argentina: Rhopalomyia caldeniae Cornejo & Martínez sp. nov., as the inducer of bivalve leaf galls, and the inquiline Dasineura oportunista Cornejo & Martínez sp. nov. These galls are composed of the partial coalescence of two contiguous pinnulae that delimit a single larval chamber, where both species develop. Seven other species were reared from these galls as parasitoids and inquilines.

 

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