Schizomyia Kieffer, 1889

Fjellberg, Arne & Fedotova, Zoya, 2024, New records of gall midges (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) from Norway, Norwegian Journal of Entomology 71, pp. 8-94 : 31

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15883449

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scientific name

Schizomyia Kieffer, 1889
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Genus Schizomyia Kieffer, 1889 View in CoL

The genus includes 75 species globally. The members are gall makers on a great variety of plants. The females have characteristic, needlelike ovipositors ( Figure 14 C View FIGURE 14 ). The genus is redescribed in Elsayed et al. (2018).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Cecidomyiidae

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