A New Species of Cecidomyia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Feeding on Resin of Baldcypress

Authors

Raymond Gagne, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, c/o U. S. National Museum NHB 168, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USAFollow
Kenneth Hibbard, Bureau of Methods Development and Biological Control, Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 3513 S, US 1, Ft. Pierce, FL 34945-3045Follow

Date of this Version

9-2008

Comments

Published in Florida Entomologist 91(3) September 2008.

Abstract

Cecidomyia lamellate Gagné, new species, is described from adults of both sexes, pupae, and larvae taken from resin in branchlet swellings of baldcypress, Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich. (Taxodiaceae), in Fort Pierce, Florida. Some anatomical characters of the new species depart from the previously known limits of the genus. Baldcypress is the first known non- Pinaceae host of Cecidomyia.