Mikiola fagi
| Mikiola fagi | |
|---|---|
|   | |
| Gall formed by Mikiola fagi | |
| Scientific classification   | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Diptera | 
| Family: | Cecidomyiidae | 
| Genus: | Mikiola | 
| Species: | M. fagi | 
| Binomial name | |
| Mikiola fagi (Hartig, 1839) | |
Mikiola fagi, the beech gall midge is a gall-causing fly in the family Cecidomyiidae.[1] This species was first described by Theodor Hartig in 1839.
Range
According to observations of the species aggregated on GBIF, this fly spreads across Europe.[2]
References
- ^ Swanton, Ernest William Brockton (1912). British plant-galls; a classified text book of cecidology. London,Methuen & co. ltd. p. 408.
- ^ Mikiola fagi (Hartig, 1839) in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-10-11.