Dasineura dielsi Rübsaamen, 1916

Kolesik, Peter & Gagné, Raymond J., 2016, Revision of early taxa of Australian gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), Zootaxa 4205 (4), pp. 301-338 : 313

Dasineura dielsi Rübsaamen, 1916

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Dasyneura dielsi Rübsaamen, 1916: 478 .

Dasineura dielsi , redescribed in Kolesik et al. (2005: 18).

We did not study Rübsaamen’s glycerine-mounted syntypes which are presumably part of ZMHB collection, currently not accessible due to its fragility.

Associated gall. Syntypes, males and females, were bred from tubular flower galls on Acacia cyclops [ Fig. 2 d], collected by Dr Diels and E. Pritzel near Karocketta , Western Australia, in January 1891 . In addition to the type material, Rübsaamen received galls collected by Otto Kuntze in Victoria in April 1904 and diagnosed them as D. dielsi on A. cyclops . Types are presumably in ZMHB as part of Rübsaamen’s glycerine-mounted collection which is not accessible due to its high fragility (M. Kotrba, pers. comm., 1998). Kolesik et al. (2005) reared and redescribed this species, sequenced the mitochondrial cytochrome B gene fragment, and determined the host range to include A. cyclops , A. papyrocarpa , A. ligulata , A. sophorae and A. oswaldii .

Figures

FIGURE 2. (a) Galls of Lasioptera miscella Skuse on leaf stalks of Eucalyptus haemastoma, (b) leaf galls of Okriomyia omalanthi (Skuse) on Omalanthus populifolius, (c) stem galls of Daphnephila glandifex Kieffer on Machilus gamblei (Lauraceae) from India which Edwards (1916) stated resembled galls of Asphondylia hilli Edwards, (d) flowers galls of Dasineura dielsi Rübsaamen on Acacia cyclops, (e) galls of Cecidomyia eucalypti Skuse (unplaced Cecidomyiinae) on stems of Eucalyptus haemastoma, (f) galls of Mesodiplosis callitridis Kolesik on branch shoot tips of Callitris endlicheri from which the inquiline Gladiodiplosis frenelae (Skuse) was reared, (g) flower galls of Dasineura acaciaelongifoliae (Skuse) on Acacia longifolia, (h) leaf galls attributed to Cecidomyia parilis Skuse (nomen dubium) on Eucalyptus corymbosa, (i) leaf galls of Heteropeza transmarina Schiner (unplaced Cecidomyiinae) on Callistemon sp., (j) flower and vegetative bud galls of Dasineura frauenfeldi (Schiner) on Leptospermum laevigatum. Left: original figure from Schiner (1868); centre: galls collected with type series in 1858; right: galls collected by Kolesik at Queenscliff, Victoria, in 2008. Figures a, b, e – h from Skuse (1890); c from Kieffer (1913 b); d from Rübsaamen (1916); i, j (left) from Schiner (1868).