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.. A CTILASIOPTERA (DIPTERA: CECIDOMYIIDAE),<br />

A NEW GENUS FOR AUSTRALASIAN AND ASIAN GALL MIDGES<br />

OF GREY MANGROVES, A VICENNIA SPP. (AVICENNIACEAE)<br />

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Raymond J. Gagn__and Laraine J. Law2<br />

_Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural <strong>Research</strong> <strong>Service</strong>, <strong>USDA</strong>, c/o U. S. National Museum NHB 168,<br />

•Washington, DC 20560, USA<br />

.2Department .of Entomology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia<br />

, , ; Abstract_A new genus of Lasiopterini, Act<strong>il</strong>asioptera, is described for five new<br />

species of gall midges that form galls on Avicennia marina along the coast of<br />

Queensland, Australia, and for Stefaniellafalcaria Felt from leaf galls of Avicennia<br />

officinalis in Java. The five new species, each forming a distinct gall, are named:<br />

Act<strong>il</strong>asioptera coronata, A. pustulata, A. subfolium, A. tuberculata, find A.<br />

tumidifolium. Keys are given for the recognition of galls, adults, pupae, and<br />

larvae.<br />

This Study is a result of a survey on the diversity and host under surface. The complex galls (figs. 5-8) are characassociations<br />

of arthropod galls on mangroves in Moreton teristic of the particular gall maker and are of a funda-<br />

Bay, SE Queensland, Australia (Law 1996). Eight foliar mentally different shape from any structure normally<br />

galls were found on grey mangrove, Avicennia marina found on the host. In the Western Hemisphere only one<br />

(Forssk.) Vierh. Five of the galls were each caused by a species of gall midge, Meunieriella avicenniae (Cook), is<br />

new species of Cecidomy<strong>ii</strong>dae described in this paper, known from Avicennia mangroves (Gagn6 and Etienne<br />

anotker by an eriophyid mite (Acarina), one by a coccid 1996). It forms simple leaf blister galls and belong_ to a<br />

(Homoptera), and one by an unknown insect or mite. No tribe of gall midges, the Alycaulini, that is restricted to<br />

galls were found on the other mangroves studied, which the Americas. No other galls are known on Avicennia<br />

•are: river mangrove, Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) spp. in the Western Hemisphere. We note here to prevent<br />

(Myrsinaceae); blind-your-eye, Excoecaria agallocha possible confusion, that Avicennia spp. of Australia are<br />

(L-) (Euphorbiaceae); black mangrove, Lumnitzera called grey mangroves, but Western Hemisphere<br />

racemosa (W<strong>il</strong>ld.) (Combretaceae); red mangrove, Avicennia spp. are called black mangroves.<br />

Rhizophora stylosa (Griffith) (Rhizophoraceae); yellow<br />

, mangrove, Ceriops tagal (Perr.) Robinson The gall midge tribe Lasiopterini is known from about<br />

(Rhizophoraceae); and large-leafed orange mangrove, 230 species from the Old World and about 40 from North<br />

Bruguiera gymnorrhiza (L.) Savigny (Rhizophoraceae). and Central America (Gagn6 1989a, 1994). Most<br />

, Lasiopterini form simple swellings on stems, petioles, !<br />

The Cecidomy<strong>ii</strong>dae from grey mangrove belong to an and leaf ribs of various plants, but some live in galls tr<br />

. apparently monophyletic group of gall midges of the galleries of other insects as inqu<strong>il</strong>ines or successors. The<br />

tribe Lasiopterini (sensu Gagn6 1994) for which a new three species treated here that form complex galls are the<br />

genus, Act<strong>il</strong>asioptera, is erected. In addition to the five first of the tribe known to do so. Many Lasiopterini, but<br />

•new species from the east coast of Queensland, this not the present species, are associated with a symbiotic<br />

genus is otherwise known from one previously described fungus. Larvae of most Lasiopterini pupate in the galls,<br />

species from Java, Stefaniellafalcaria Felt, that is as do these, but a species in Japan (Yukawa and Haitsuka<br />

redescribed and transferred to the new genus, and a 1994) and one in North America (Gagn6, unpubl.) are<br />

species from Papua New Guinea known only from adults exceptions and drop to the so<strong>il</strong> to pupate.<br />

and so left undescribed. The genus probably occurs<br />

. throughout the range of grey mangroves in Asia and Only ten species of Lasiopterini are known from the<br />

Australasia. Galls made by these species are either Australasian Region, all from Australia and at present<br />

_imple or complex (figs. 1-8). The simple galls (figs. 1- assigned to the genus Lasioptera (Gagn6 1989b). None<br />

4) areswellings of either both leaf surfaces or only the is from mangrove. Nine of these species are poorly<br />

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