Houardiella Kieffer, 1912

Dorchin, Netta & Freidberg, Amnon, 2008, The Chenopodiaceae-feeding gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of the Na’aman salt marsh, Israel, Zootaxa 1937, pp. 1-22 : 12

Genus Houardiella Kieffer, 1912

Houardiella comprises two described species in the tribe Asphondyliini ( Gagné 2004) . It is closely related to the genus Asphondylia , with its needle-like, piercing ovipositor that is accompanied by a pair of basal lobes at its base, and the progressively shorter flagellomeres in the female. It differs from Asphondylia in having onesegmented (as opposed to three-segmented) palpi, a single tooth rather than two teeth on the male gonostylus, and an apical, posterior extension of the gonocoxite. Immature stages resemble those of Asphondylia , with well developed cephalic horns and abdominal spines in pupae, and a massive spatula in larvae.