Discovery of a new host plant of Pseudasphondylia tominagai Elsayed & Tokuda, 2019 (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae)

By

Elsayed, Ayman
Nemoto, Shuichi
Tokuda, Makoto

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024-12-9

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

20

Series / Issue

Issue: 6

Pages

1351--1356

Subjects

Asphondyliina , Asphondyliini , Deutzia , gall midge , Hydrangeaceae , Phylogeny

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/20.6.1351

 

Abstract

Barely visible flower bud galls of Deutzia floribunda Nakai (Hydrangeaceae) were found in Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Morphological and molecular analyses indicated that the gall inducer is Pseudasphondylia tominagai Elsayed & Tokuda, 2019 (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae), previously known only to form galls on Eleutherococcus spinosus (L.f.) S.Y.Hu (Araliaceae) in Honshu, Japan. This study marks the first report of a species of Pseudasphondylia Monzen, 1955 on Hydrangeaceae, having host plants from different families and establishing D. floribunda as a new host record for P. tominagai.