Olpodiplosis
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| Olpodiplosis | |
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| Galls of Olpodiplosis helianthi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
| Supertribe: | Cecidomyiidi |
| Genus: | Olpodiplosis Gagne, 1973 |
| Species: | O. helianthi |
| Binomial name | |
| Olpodiplosis helianthi | |
Olpodiplosis is a monotypic genus of gall midges, insects in the family Cecidomyiidae. The only described species is Olpodiplosis helianthi.[2][3]
This species occurs in North America and induces flask-shaped galls on several species of sunflower.[2][3][4][1] The inducers over-winter in the galls, emerging as adults the following spring.[1]
The species was first described as Diplosis helianthi by entomologist William Brodie in 1894, but moved to Olpodiplosis by Raymond Gagné in 1973.[1][2]
