Asteromyia carbonifera

Asteromyia carbonifera
	Larva
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Genus:	Asteromyia
Species:	A. carbonifera
Binomial name
	Asteromyia carbonifera; (Osten Sacken, 1862)
Synonyms
	Baldratia flavoanulata Felt, 1908 ; Baldratia flavoscuta Felt, 1908 ; Baldratia socialis Felt, 1908 ; Baldratia squarrosae Felt, 1908 ; Cecidomyia carbonifera Osten Sacken, 1862 ; Choristoneura abnormis Felt, 1907 ; Choristoneura albomaculata Felt, 1907 ; Choristoneura convoluta Felt, 1907 ; Choristoneura flavolunata Felt, 1907 ; Lasioptera rosea Felt, 1907 ; Lasioptera rubra Felt, 1907 ; Lasioptera tuberculata Felt, 1907 ;

Asteromyia carbonifera is a species of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] It creates galls on Solidago plants. Females can lay up to 300 eggs at a time and often collect conidia of the fungus Botryosphaeria dothidea, which is deposited on the plant alongside the eggs. The larvae grow within the gall that the fungus creates, a form of mutualism.^[5]