''Dasineura'' is a genus of

midge A midge is any small fly, including species in several family (biology), families of non-mosquito nematoceran Diptera. Midges are found (seasonally or otherwise) on practically every land area outside permanently arid deserts and the frigid ...

s in the

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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 ...

, some of which cause galls on plants such as ''

Dasineura crataegi ''Dasineura crataegi'', the hawthorn button-top gall-midge, is a dipteran Cecidomyiidae, gall-midge. It causes the hawthorn button-top gall, which develops in the terminal shoots of common hawthorn, ''Crataegus monogyna'' Jacq., Midland hawthorn ...

'' on hawthorn (''

Crataegus monogyna ''Crataegus monogyna'', known as common hawthorn, whitethorn, one-seed hawthorn, or single-seeded hawthorn, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. It grows to about tall, producing plant sexuality, hermaphrodite flowers i ...

'') and ''

Dasineura fraxinea ''Dasineura'' is a genus of midges in the family Cecidomyiidae, some of which cause galls on plants such as ''Dasineura crataegi'' on hawthorn (''Crataegus monogyna ''Crataegus monogyna'', known as common hawthorn, whitethorn, one-seed hawth ...

'' on ash (''

Fraxinus excelsior ''Fraxinus excelsior'', known as the ash, or European ash or common ash to distinguish it from other types of ash, is a flowering plant species in the olive family Oleaceae. It is native throughout mainland Europe east to the Caucasus and Alb ...

'').

* List of ''Dasineura'' species File:Larva Dasineura salicifoliae in gall.jpg, Larva of ''Dasineura salicifoliae'' in gall File:Galls Dasineura salicifoliae.jpg, Galls of ''Dasineura salicifoliae'' File:Dasineura tumidosae larvae closeup2.jpg, Larvae of ''Dasineura tumidosae'' File:Dasineura pellex larva.jpg, Larva of ''Dasineura pellex'' File:Dasineura carbonaria larva.jpg, Larva of ''Dasineura carbonaria'' File:Dasineura brassicae adult (24562493456).jpg, ''Dasineura brassicae'', adult File:Agalla sobre genista - Las bolitas peludas (16289042645).jpg, Galls of ''Dasineura scorpii''

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q3016755 Cecidomyiidae genera Taxa named by Camillo Rondani Cecidomyiinae

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