Check List 20(6): 1351-1356, doi: 10.15560/20.6.1351
Discovery of a new host plant of Pseudasphondylia tominagai Elsayed & Tokuda, 2019 (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae)
Ayman Khamis Elsayed‡§, Shuichi Nemoto|, Makoto Tokuda§‡‡ Saga University, Saga, Japan§ Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan| Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan
Corresponding author: Ayman Khamis Elsayed ( ayman.khamis77@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Oscar Sanchez Molina © Ayman Khamis Elsayed, Shuichi Nemoto, Makoto Tokuda. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Elsayed AK, Nemoto S, Tokuda M (2024) Discovery of a new host plant of Pseudasphondylia tominagai Elsayed & Tokuda, 2019 (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Check List 20(6): 1351-1356. https://doi.org/10.15560/20.6.1351 |  |
Abstract
Barely visible flower bud galls of Deutzia floribunda Nakai (Hydrangeaceae) were found in Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Morphological and molecular analyses indicated that the gall inducer is Pseudasphondylia tominagai Elsayed & Tokuda, 2019 (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae), previously known only to form galls on Eleutherococcus spinosus (L.f.) S.Y.Hu (Araliaceae) in Honshu, Japan. This study marks the first report of a species of Pseudasphondylia Monzen, 1955 on Hydrangeaceae, having host plants from different families and establishing D. floribunda as a new host record for P. tominagai.
Keywords
Asphondyliini, Asphondyliina, Deutzia, gall midge, Hydrangeaceae, phylogeny