Stefaniella Kieffer, 1898

Dorchin, Netta & Freidberg, Amnon, 2008, The Chenopodiaceae-feeding gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of the Na’aman salt marsh, Israel, Zootaxa 1937, pp. 1-22 : 15

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.184984
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6231598
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scientific name	Stefaniella Kieffer, 1898
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Stefaniella is an Old-World genus of the tribe Lasiopterini , comprising 9 described species ( Gagné 2004) of very uniform morphology, all but one develop in Atriplex spp. ( Chenopodiaceae ) in Central Asia and the Mediterranean basin. The female ovipositor is characterized by a straight, posteriorly pointed aculeus, a rectangular apical lamella, and a lateral plate that bears short setae. Palpus is two-segmented, and larvae have a bilobed spatula.