Dasineura Rondani, 1840

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Genus Dasineura Rondani, 1840

Dasineura is an extremely diverse genus with 476 species around the world, included in the tribe Dasineurini , which comprises fifty more genera ( Gagné & Jaschhof 2017). It is a polyphyletic genus, and the species assigned here cause mainly simple galls, such as leaf rolls and bud swellings or live freely in flower head ( Gagné 2018). Dasineura species have male flagellomeres with necks; palpus are four segmented; vein R5 joining C at least slightly before the wing apex; tarsal claws with basal tooth; sternites II–VII with anterior pair of trichoid sensilla; females with tergite VIII divided longitudinally into two elongate sclerites and cerci fused. Males with gonocoxal mediobasal lobes well-developed, clasping the aedeagus. Mature larva usually with spatula clove-shaped and with two groups of three papillae on each side of the spatula, and eight terminal papillae.