Cystiphora

Cystiphora
Leaf galls caused by Cystiphora canadensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Supertribe:	Lasiopteridi
Genus:	Cystiphora Kieffer, 1892

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

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Cystiphora:

• Cystiphora canadensis Felt, 1913 ^{i c g}
• Cystiphora leontodontis (Bremi, 1847) ^{c g}
• Cystiphora sanguinea (Bremi, 1847) ^{c g}
• Cystiphora schmidti (Rübsaamen, 1914) ^{i c g b} (rush skeletonweed gall midge)
• Cystiphora scorzonerae Kieffer, 1909 ^{c g}
• Cystiphora sonchi (Bremi, 1847) ^{i c g b}
• Cystiphora taraxaci (Kieffer, 1888) ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

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.