Contarinia zauschneriae
North American gall-inducing insect
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Contarinia zauschneriae, also known as the California fuchsia gall midge, is a species of gall midge that induces roselle-form bud galls on Epilobium canum, a flowering plant of western North America.[1][2] The galls are typically 25 millimeters high and about 15 millimeters around.[2] The coloration roughly mimics that of a stereotypical red rosebud, with red on the upper half where the petals would be and green-yellow at the base where the leaflets would be.[2] The type species was collected by Ephraim Felt in the Puente Hills, near Whittier, California, in 1910.[3]
| Contarinia zauschneriae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
| Supertribe: | Cecidomyiidi |
| Tribe: | Cecidomyiini |
| Genus: | Contarinia |
| Species: | C. zauschneriae |
| Binomial name | |
| Contarinia zauschneriae (Felt, 1912) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Thecodiplosis zauschneriae | |
