''Harmandiola'' is a genus of
flies
Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwin ...
belonging to 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 ...
. The 14 described species are found in the
Holarctic
The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ...
region.
They induce
galls
Galls (from the Latin , 'oak-apple') or ''cecidia'' (from the Greek , anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to benign tumors or wart ...
on species of
poplar,
chestnut
The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Castanea'', in the beech family Fagaceae. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Description
...
, and
hickory
Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus ''Carya'', which includes 19 species accepted by ''Plants of the World Online''.
Seven species are native to southeast Asia in China, Indochina, and northeastern India (Assam), and twelve ...
trees.
Species
* ''
Harmandiola amisae''
(Gagne, 1992)
* ''
Harmandiola castaneae''
(Stebbins, 1910)
* ''
Harmandiola cavernosa''
(Rübsaamen, 1899)
* ''
Harmandiola globuli''
(Rübsaamen, 1889)
* ''
Harmandiola helena''
(Felt, 1912)
* ''
Harmandiola hudsoni''
(Felt, 1907)
* ''
Harmandiola nucicola''
(Osten Sacken, 1878)
* ''
Harmandiola polymorpha''
(Bremi, 1847)
* ''
Harmandiola populea''
(Schrank, 1803)
* ''
Harmandiola populi''
(Rübsaamen, 1917)
* ''
Harmandiola pustulans''
(Kieffer, 1909)
* ''
Harmandiola reginae''
(Felt, 1921)
* ''
Harmandiola stebbinsae''
(Gagné, 1972)
* ''
Harmandiola tremulae''
(Winnertz, 1853)
References
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Cecidomyiidae
Gall-inducing insects
Insects described in 1997
Taxa named by Marcela Skuhravá
Cecidomyiidae genera