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Rhopalomyia
	Rhopalomyia solidaginis, pupa and emerging adult
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Tribe:	Oligotrophini
Genus:	Rhopalomyia; Rübsaamen, 1892

Rhopalomyia is a genus of gall midges, insects in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are at least 267 described species in Rhopalomyia.^[1] Most species in this genus induce galls on plants in the Asteraceae.^[1] This genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.^[1] Rhopalomyia was first established by Ewald Heinrich Rübsaamen in 1892.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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.

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