TITLE Preliminary notes on the three Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) galls on Machilus thunbergii Hayata (Lauraceae) in the Guandaushi forest of central Taiwan
AUTHOR Sue-Yen Yang
Department of Botany, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
Sue-Yen Yang
Department of Botany, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
Jeng-Tze Yang
Department of Entomology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
Ming-Yih Chen
Department of Botany, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
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ABSTRACT Three cecidomyiid galls were found on Machilus thunbergii Hayata (Lauraceae) in the Guandaushi forest of central Taiwan. The one on the twigs is the spindle-shaped gall. The two on the leaves are the swan-shaped gall and the club-shaped gall. These galls are all induced by gall midges of the genus Daphnephila (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). Galls, the larvae of the inducers, gall size, and the general structures of the gall were studied and are described in this paper.
KEYWORD Cecidomyiidae; Gall; Guandaushi; Machilus;
ARTICLE INFO Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, Volume 40 Number 2 April 1999, page 153-158, 6 pages
PUBLISHER Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China