Bud gall midges - potential invaders on larches in North America

Yuri N. Baranchikov

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Bud gall midges - potential invaders on larches in North America

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Authors:

Yuri N. Baranchikov

Year:

2007

Type:

General Technical Report - Proceedings

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Gottschalk, Kurt W., ed. Proceedings, 17th U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other invasive species 2006; Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-10. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 17.

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Abstract

Larch bud gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) form a specialized group of gall insects inhabiting buds of larch (Larix) in the northern Palaearctic Region. Currently there are four described species in this group. Dasineura kellneri Henschel is found in Central Europe and infests Larix decidua; D. rozhkovi Mam.et Nik. is widely distributed through southern and eastern Siberia to Khabarovsk and in northeastern Mongolia on L. sibirica, L. gmelinii, and L. czekanowskii; D. versa Skuhrava is known from Southern Siberia and Northern Mongolia on L. sibirica, L. gmelinii; D. nipponica Inouye was described from Japan and lives on L. kaempferi.

Parent Publication

Proceedings, 17th U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other invasive species 2006

Citation

Baranchikov, Yuri N. 2007. Bud gall midges - potential invaders on larches in North America. In: Gottschalk, Kurt W., ed. Proceedings, 17th U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other invasive species 2006; Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-10. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 17.