Mikiola fagi

{{Short description|Species of fly}}

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|image_caption=Gall formed by Mikiola fagi

|genus=Mikiola

|species=fagi

|authority=(Hartig, 1839)

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Mikiola fagi, the beech gall midge is a gall-causing fly in the family Cecidomyiidae.{{cite book |last1=Swanton |first1=Ernest William Brockton |title=British plant-galls; a classified text book of cecidology |date=1912 |publisher=London,Methuen & co. ltd. |pages=408 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/116245}} This species was first described by Theodor Hartig in 1839.

Range

According to observations of the species aggregated on GBIF, this fly spreads across Europe.Mikiola fagi (Hartig, 1839) in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-10-11.

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