Rabdophaga albipennis

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| genus = Rabdophaga

| species = albipennis

| synonyms = Dasineura albipennis
Cecidomyia albipennis Loew, 1850
Rhabdophaga albipennis (Loew, H.)

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Rabdophaga albipennis is a gall midge which forms galls on the shoots of white willow (Salix alba).

Description

The gall is a slight swelling on a twig just below a bud on white willow (Salix alba). Inside the gall is a reddish-orange larvae which later makes an emergence hole in the twig or bud and overwinters in the gall.{{cite book|last1=Redfern|first1=Margaret|last2=Shirley|first2=Peter|last3=Boxham|first3=Michael|title=British Plant Galls|date=2011|publisher=Field Study Council|location=Shrewsbury|isbn=978-185153-284-1|pages=282–299|edition=Second}}{{cite web|last1=Ellis|first1=W N|title=Rabdophaga albipennis (Loew, 1850)|url=http://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/animalia/arthropoda/insecta/diptera/nematocera/cecidomyiidae/cecidomyiinae/lasiopteridi/oligotrophini/rabdophaga/rabdophaga-albipennis/|website=Plant Parasites of Europe|access-date=21 March 2018}}

Distribution

The insect or gall has been found in Great Britain and Italy.{{cite journal|last1=Hellrigl|first1=Klaus|title=Gall-midges and Gall-mites: Supplement to Faunistics of South Tyrol (2)|journal=Forest Observer|date=2006|volume=2/3|pages=251–280}}

References

albipennis

Category:Nematoceran flies of Europe

Category:Gall-inducing insects

Category:Insects described in 1850

Category:Taxa named by Hermann Loew

Category:Willow galls