Gephyraulus mangiferae (Felt), n. comb. (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae): a mango pest from India newly recorded from the western hemisphere.
Gagné R. J., Etienne J.
Author Affiliation: (RJG) Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, c/o National Museum of National History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 168, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108 : 930-937
Abstract : Dasineura mangiferae Felt (n. comb.) transferred here to the genus Gephyraulus, is a cecidomyiid native to India that lives in and destroys the flowers of mango, Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae). It is reported here from Guadeloupe, French West Indies, as the first record for the Americas. Adults of both sexes and the pupa and larva are redescribed with illustrations. This gall midge is discriminated from its congeners as well as from Procontarinia mangiferae (Felt), a second pest of mango inflorescences from India already in the West Indies and South America. Gephyraulus was previously known only in the Palaearctic Region from nine species, all infesting flowers of Brassicaceae. Procystiphora indica Grover and Prasad from India is also moved to Gephyraulus (n. comb.).