Presence of ephedra gall midge, Ephedromyia debilopalpis Marikovskij (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Iran

Hadi, Omid; Lotfalizadeh, Hossein; Kazemi, Mohammad-Hossein; Skuhravá, Marcela

doi:10.52547/jibs.4.2.135

Presence of ephedra gall midge, Ephedromyia debilopalpis Marikovskij (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Iran

Document Type : Case Report

Authors

Omid Hadi ¹

Hossein Lotfalizadeh ²

Mohammad-Hossein Kazemi ¹

Marcela Skuhravá ³

¹ Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

² Department of Plant Protection, East-Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tabriz, Iran

³ Bítovská 1227/9, CZ-140 00, Praha 4, Czech Republic

10.52547/jibs.4.2.135

Abstract

We reared Ephedromyia debilopalpis Marikovskij (Dip.: Cecidomyiidae) for the fist time on Ephedra major (Ephedraceae) in the northwest of Iran in 2016. This is the new record of the genus and species for Iran. With including this new record, the known gall midge fauna of Iran reached 62 species and 34 genera.

Graphical Abstract

Keywords

Diptera

Ephedromyia

Iran

distribution

new record

Ephedraceae

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