Mikiola fagi, the beech gall midge is a gall-causing fly in the family Cecidomyiidae.[1] This species was first described by Theodor Hartig in 1839.
| Mikiola fagi | |
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| Gall formed by Mikiola fagi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
| Genus: | Mikiola |
| Species: | M. fagi
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| Binomial name | |
| Mikiola fagi (Hartig, 1839)
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Range
editAccording to observations of the species aggregated on GBIF, this fly spreads across Europe.[2]
References
edit- ^ Swanton, Ernest William Brockton (1912). British plant-galls; a classified text book of cecidology. London,Methuen & co. ltd. p. 408.
- ^ 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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