''Allarete'' is a genus of midges in the family
Cecidomyiidae
Cecidomyiidae is a family of diptera, flies known as gall midges or gall gnats. As the name implies, the larvae of most gall midges feed within plant tissue, creating abnormal plant growths called galls. Cecidomyiidae are very fragile small in ...
. There are twelve described species in this genus.
It is known from the
holarctic
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,
afrotropical
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, and
oriental
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In English, it is largely a meto ...
regions.
The genus was first described by
Arthur Earl Pritchard
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A common spelling variant used in many Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages is Artur. In Spanish and Ital ...
in 1951.
Species
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Allarete africana''
Enderlein, 1911
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Allarete bharatica''
Grover & Bakhshi, 1978
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Allarete bhokarensis''
Deshpande, Shaikh & Sharma, 2002
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Allarete bicornuta''
Jaschhof, 1997
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Allarete deepica''
Deshpande, Shaikh & Sharma, 2002
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Allarete hindica''
(Deshpande, Shaikh & Sharma, 2002)
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Allarte indica''
(Grover, 1964)
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Allarete nigra''
Mamaev, 1994
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Allarete orientalis''
(Grover, 1964)
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Allarete spatuliformis''
Grover, 1979
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Allarete spinosa''
Deshpande, Shaikh & Sharma, 2002
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Allarete vernalis''
(Felt, 1908)
References
Cecidomyiidae genera
Insects described in 1951
Taxa named by Arthur Earl Pritchard
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