Walshomyia cupressi is a North American species of midge that induces galls on pygmy cypress and Sargent cypress trees in California and Oregon.[1][2][3] The larval stage lasts for almost two years before adults emerge from exit holes from the side of the gall.[2] The holotype species was collected in 1967 in Mendocino County, California and described by Raymond Gagné in 1969.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
| Genus: | Walshomyia |
| Species: | W. cupressi
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| Binomial name | |
| Walshomyia cupressi Gagné, 1969
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References
edit- ^ "Walshomyia cupressi (Cypress Gall Midge)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
- ^ a b Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. pp. 70–71. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN 2020949502. OCLC 1239984577. S2CID 238148746.
- ^ "Walshomyia cupressi". www.gallformers.org. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
- ^ Gagné, R. J. (January 1969). A review of the genus Walshomyia including a new species from Cupressus galls in California. Vol. 45. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Entomological Society. pp. 16–19 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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