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Mikiola fagi

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Species of fly

Mikiola fagi
Gall formed by Mikiola fagi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Genus: Mikiola
Species: M. fagi
Binomial name
Mikiola fagi
(Hartig, 1839)

Mikiola fagi, the beech gall midge is a gall-causing fly in the family Cecidomyiidae. This species was first described by Theodor Hartig in 1839.

Range

According to observations of the species aggregated on GBIF, this fly spreads across Europe.

References

  1. Swanton, Ernest William Brockton (1912). British plant-galls; a classified text book of cecidology. London,Methuen & co. ltd. p. 408.
  2. Mikiola fagi (Hartig, 1839) in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-10-11.
Taxon identifiers
Mikiola fagi
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