Asteromyia carbonifera
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
| Genus: | Asteromyia |
| Species: | A. carbonifera
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| Binomial name | |
| Asteromyia carbonifera (Osten Sacken, 1862)
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Asteromyia carbonifera is a species of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae.[1][2][3][4] It creates galls on Solidago plants. Females can lay up to 300 eggs at a time and often collect conidia of the fungus Botryosphaeria dothidea, which is deposited on the plant alongside the eggs. The larvae grow within the gall that the fungus creates, a form of mutualism.[5]
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Gall on goldenrod -
Galls on Solidago altissima
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Asteromyia carbonifera Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- ^ "Asteromyia carbonifera species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- ^ "Asteromyia carbonifera". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- ^ "Asteromyia carbonifera Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- ^ Heath, Jeremy J.; Stireman, John O. (2 September 2010). "Dissecting the association between a gall midge, Asteromyia carbonifera, and its symbiotic fungus, Botryosphaeria dothidea: Asteromyia-fungus association". Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 137 (1): 36–49. doi:10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.01040.x. S2CID 82302908. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
Further reading
[edit]- Gagné, Raymond J.; Jaschhof, Mathias (2017). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World, Fourth Edition (PDF). Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture.
- Gagné, Raymond J.; Jaschhof, Mathias (2014). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (PDF) (Report). Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA.
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