Rabdophaga jaapi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
Genus: | Rabdophaga |
Species: | R. jaapi
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Binomial name | |
Rabdophaga jaapi
Rübsaamen, 1916
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Synonyms | |
Dasineura repentis Skuhrava, 1986 |
Rabdophaga jaapi is a species of gall midges which forms galls on creeping willow ( Salix repens).
The gall is an enlarged bud on S. repens. It is surrounded with small thickened leaves which have short silver-white hairs. [1] Correct identification of the species of Salix is important for the identification of R. jaapi, because it is similar to R. rosariella, which forms galls on sallows. [a] The gall of R. jaapi can also be positively identified by the single reddish-yellow larva which has a sternal spatula, i.e. ″... a structure on the underside of the thorax of the final (third) instar larva of Cecidomyiidae...″. [1] [2]
The species has one generation a year (i.e. univoltine) and the larva hibernates in the gall where it pupates. [3]
Has been found in Denmark and Great Britain.