Asteromyia carbonifera

{{short description|Species of fly}}

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| image = Asteromyia carbonifera larva.jpg

| image_caption = Larva

| genus = Asteromyia

| species = carbonifera

| authority = (Osten Sacken, 1862)

| synonyms = {{Species list

| Baldratia flavoanulata | Felt, 1908

| Baldratia flavoscuta | Felt, 1908

| Baldratia socialis | Felt, 1908

| Baldratia squarrosae | Felt, 1908

| Cecidomyia carbonifera | Osten Sacken, 1862

| Choristoneura abnormis | Felt, 1907

| Choristoneura albomaculata | Felt, 1907

| Choristoneura convoluta | Felt, 1907

| Choristoneura flavolunata | Felt, 1907

| Lasioptera rosea | Felt, 1907

| Lasioptera rubra | Felt, 1907

| Lasioptera tuberculata | Felt, 1907

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Asteromyia carbonifera is a species of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. It creates galls on Solidago plants. Females can lay up to 300 eggs at a time and often collect conidia of the fungus Botryosphaeria dothidea, which is deposited on the plant alongside the eggs. The larvae grow within the gall that the fungus creates, a form of mutualism.{{cite journal |last1=Heath |first1=Jeremy J. |last2=Stireman |first2=John O. |title=Dissecting the association between a gall midge, Asteromyia carbonifera, and its symbiotic fungus, Botryosphaeria dothidea: Asteromyia-fungus association |journal=Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata |date=2 September 2010 |volume=137 |issue=1 |pages=36–49 |doi=10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.01040.x |s2cid=82302908 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.01040.x |access-date=4 August 2022|doi-access=free }}

Asteromyia_carbonifera_gall.jpg|Gall on goldenrod

Solidago_altissima-Asteromyia_carbonifera-galls.jpg|Galls on Solidago altissima