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Source: Wikipedia

Dasineura investita

Dasineura investita galls
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Genus:	Dasineura
Species:	D. investita
Binomial name
*Dasineura investita* Plakidas, 2016

Dasineura investita, the wood nettle gall midge, forms a gall that grows on the wood nettle plant Laportea canadensis. It was described in 2016 and is caused by a midge in the family Cecidomyiidae. The galls form on the petiole, upper leaf, leaf midrib, on leaf veins, between leaf veins, flower, stem. They are oval globose 4-5 mm by 8-12 mm pale, red, white, to green translucent. There are two generations a year, the full grown larva from the autumn generation overwinters in the central chamber of the gall. The genus Dasineura is a vary large one with many gall forming species.^[1]

References

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^ Plakidas, John D. (2016). "The gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Cecidomyiinae) from Allegheny County Pennsylvania". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 27 (3–4): 65–176.