Massalongia

Massalongia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily:	Cecidomyiinae
Genus:	Massalongia Kieffer, 1890

Massalongia is a genus of flies in the family Cecidomyiidae. The larvae induce galls on birches.^[1][2]

Species

The following six species have been described in this genus:^[2][1]

• Massalongia altaica Fedotova, 1990
• Massalongia bachmaieri Möhn, 1954
• Massalongia betulifolia Harris, 1974
• Massalongia nakamuratetsui Elsayed & Tokuda 2020
• Massalongia papyrifera (Gagné, 1967)
• Massalongia rubra (Kieffer, 1890)

References

1. R.J. Gagne; M. Jaschof (2021). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (5th ed.). ISBN 978-0-9863941-3-3. Wikidata Q109561625.
2. Ayman Khamis Elsayed; Marcela Skuhravá; Kazuki Ohta; Satoshi Yoshida; Makoto Tokuda (11 August 2020). "Revision of the birch-associated genus Massalongia (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae), with description of a new species from Japan and a taxonomic key to worldwide species". ZooKeys. 958: 1–27. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.958.54300. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 7434807. PMID 32863715. Wikidata Q99629732.