Asteromyia

Asteromyia
Asteromyia carbonifera, larva
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Tribe:	Alycaulini
Genus:	Asteromyia Felt, 1910

Asteromyia is a genus of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are about nine described species in Asteromyia.

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Asteromyia:

• Asteromyia carbonifera (Osten Sacken, 1862)
• Asteromyia chrysothamni Felt, 1918
• Asteromyia clarkei (Felt, 1909)
• Asteromyia euthamiae Gagne, 1968
• Asteromyia gutierreziae Felt, 1916
• Asteromyia laeviana (Felt, 1907)
• Asteromyia modesta (Felt, 1907)
• Asteromyia tumifica (Beutenmuller, 1907)
• Asteromyia urostigmatis (Tavares, 1917)

Further reading

• Gagné, R. J. (1989). The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-1918-8.
• Gagné, R. J. (1994). The Gall Midges of the Neotropical Region. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-2786-2.
• Gagné, Raymond J.; Jaschhof, Mathias (2017). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World, Fourth Edition (PDF). Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 28, 2018.
• McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN 978-0-660-10731-8.
• Gagné, Raymond J.; Jaschhof, Mathias (2014). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (PDF) (Report). Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 18, 2014.