Rabdophaga strobiloides

Willow pinecone gall midge
	Gall caused by willow pinecone gall midge
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Genus:	Rabdophaga
Species:	R. strobiloides
Binomial name
	Rabdophaga strobiloides; (Osten Sacken, 1862)
Synonyms
	Cecidomyia salicisstrobiloides Osten Sacken, 1878 ; Cecidomyia strobiloides Osten Sacken, 1862 ;

Rabdophaga strobiloides, the willow pinecone gall midge, is a species of gall midge in the family Cecidomyiidae.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

The gall resembles a pinecone in shape.

References[]

^ ^a ^b "Rabdophaga strobiloides Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
^ "Rabdophaga strobiloides species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
^ "Rabdophaga strobiloides". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
^ "Rabdophaga strobiloides Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-04.

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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