Bremiola

Bremiola
Gall of Bremiola onobrychidis on Astragalus cicer
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily: Cecidomyiinae
Supertribe: Lasiopteridi
Tribe: Dasineurini
Genus: Bremiola
Rübsaamen 1915

Bremiola is a genus of flies in the family Cecidomyiidae. The larvae induce galls on plants in the legume family.[1][2]

This genus is only known from the Palearctic, mostly from central Asia and eastern Europe.[1][3] Several species of Chalcidoid wasps are parasitoids of the larvae.[4]

Taxonomy

Bremiola was first described and named by German entomologist Ewald Heinrich Rübsaamen in 1915.[1] It is named after Johann Bremi-Wolf who described the type species - Bremiola onobrychidis (as Cecidomyia onobrychidis) - in 1847 based on a specimen collected in Switzerland.[1][2] All other species were first described and named by Russian entomologist Zoya Fedotova between 1984 and 1994 based on specimens collected in Kazakhstan.[1]

Species

Source:[1]

  • Bremiola alpina Fedotova 1990
  • Bremiola astragalicola Fedotova 1986
  • Bremiola calophacae Fedotova 1986
  • Bremiola caraganae Fedotova 1986
  • Bremiola caraganicola Fedotova 1990
  • Bremiola decipiens Fedotova 1986
  • Bremiola deserta Fedotova 1990
  • Bremiola halimodendronis Fedotova 1986
  • Bremiola hedysarii Fedotova 1986
  • Bremiola karatavica Fedotova 1994
  • Bremiola onobrychidis (Bremi 1847)
  • Bremiola oxytropicola Fedotova 1984
  • Bremiola rosulae Fedotova 1993
  • Bremiola sphaerophysae Fedotova 1990
  • Bremiola tarbagataica Fedotova 1990

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Gagne, Raymond J.; Jaschhof, Mathias (2025). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (6th ed.). doi:10.5281/zenodo.15409750. ISBN 978-0-9863941-5-7.
  2. ^ a b Ewald Heinrich Rübsaamen (1915). "Cecidomyidenstudien IV. Revision der deutschen Oligotropharien und Lasiopterarien nebst Beschreibung neuer Arten". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (in German): 485–567. ISSN 0037-5942. Wikidata Q136735616.
  3. ^ Skuhravá, Marcela; Skuhravý, Václav; Skrzypczyńska, Małgorzata; Szadziewski, Ryszard (2008). "Gall midges (Cecidomyiidae, Diptera) of Poland". Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom (Entomology). 16: 5–160.
  4. ^ Dzhanokmen, K. A. (2017). "Pteromalids (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) of the Karatau Ridge and adjacent territories of the Talas Alatau Ridge in Western Tien Shan". Entomological Review. 97 (6): 794–817. doi:10.1134/S0013873817060082. ISSN 0013-8738.