CECIDOMYIIDAE
(wood, gall, rust and aphid midges)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Acericecis campestre
a gall midge
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 		Species 9 images
CECIDOMYIINAE
a subfamily of gall, rust and aphid midges
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 		Subfamily 36 subtaxa 327 images 14 ident. refs
Harmandiola
a genus of flies
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 5 images
LESTREMIINAE
wood midges
Subfamily 1 subtaxa 5 ident. refs
Paragephyraulus diplotaxis
(A Gall Midge)
Species 1 ident. refs
Cecidomyiidae (unidentified)
Unidentified Wood, Gall, Rust and Aphid Midges
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 		Unidentified 1 images
[agapanthus gall midge]
Agapanthus gall midge
Informal 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyCECIDOMYIIDAE (wood, gall, rust and aphid midges)
SuperfamilySCIAROIDEA (fungus gnats and gall midges)
InfraorderBibionomorpha (St Mark’s flies, fever flies)
SuborderNEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies, gnat)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Ellis, W.N. Plant Parasites of Europe: leafminers, galls and Fungi bladmineerders.nl
Hackston, M. 2013 Differentiating the British subfamilies of family Cecidomyiidae https://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeys2/
() Rotheray, G.E. 1989 Aphid Predators Naturalists' Handbooks, 11, 77pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd

Plant Galls

Anon. British Galls
() Darlington, A. 1968 A Pocket Encyclopedia of Plant Galls in colour Blandford Press
() Redfern, M. & Shirley, P. 2011 British Plant Galls AIDGAP Keys, Second edition, 432pp, Field Studies Council

CECIDOMYIIDAE (wood, gall, rust and aphid midges) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CECIDOMYIIDAE (wood, gall, rust and aphid midges)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 373 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CECIDOMYIIDAE (wood, gall, rust and aphid midges)
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