Rhopalomyia Rübsaamen,1892

Cornejo, Laura Gabriela, Molas, Bárbara Mariana Corró, Kuzmanich, Nicolás & Martínez, Juan José, 2019, New species of Rhopalomyia and Dasineura (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) associated with Prosopis caldenia Burkart (Fabaceae) in Argentina, Zootaxa 4691 (2), pp. 161-170 : 162

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4691.2.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2AFCAA28-EBF1-45F8-8C60-51D2968F05D4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932490
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scientific name	Rhopalomyia Rübsaamen,1892
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Genus Rhopalomyia Rübsaamen,1892 View in CoL View at ENA

Rhopalomyia View in CoL is a worldwide genus of the tribe Oligotrophini View in CoL , with 267 valid known species, associated almost exclusively with galls on Asteraceae ( Gagné & Jaschhof 2017) View in CoL . Typically, Rhopalomyia View in CoL species have a reduced number of palpal segments, one or two, but some species have three to four segments; vein C is not interrupted immediately posterior to its juncture with R5; tarsal claws may or not may have basal tooth; in the female the eighth abdominal tergite is undivided longitudinally and the cerci are fused; males with completely setulose gonostyle. Larva with or without spatula.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Cecidomyiidae