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Contarinia maculipennis (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), a polyphagous pest newly reported for North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Raymond J. Gagné
Affiliation:
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Washington, D.C., USA

Abstract

A gall midge recently found on Dendrobium orchids in Florida, USA, is identified as Contarinia maculipennis Felt. The identification is based on anatomical similarity to a polyphagous species originally described from Hawaii but which now appears to be from south-east Asia. Contarinia maculipennis is redescribed and compared to Contarinia solani (Rübsaamen) and C. lycopersici Felt, two species with which it has been confused in the literature.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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