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Cecidomyiinae, host or hosts if known. Indented below that line in chronological order is the original spelling and
combination of that name, followed by any synonyms, misspellings, and emendations, with author, date, and page or
plate for each name. Following each species are: the type locality or localities; kind of type; stage of type; and
depository. Any new taxonomic decisions are signalled in boldface following the pertinent entries. Explanatory notes
and further references are occasionally provided.
Misspellings.--Alternative spellings accompanying the original description are cited, as well as those in
subsequent papers that might tend to mislead because they are in headings, lists, or keys. Textual typographical errors
in papers subsequent to the original that can be understood as such in context were not cited. Only the first example
known to me of a misspelled name is indicated, so the term "of authors" is not used.
Misidentifications.--These are only rarely noted, as in the case of economically important species, e.g. the
North American Asphondylia websteri that was at one time cited as A. miki, a European species.
Distribution.--Ranges given are from various sources, including revisions, previous catalogs, and faunal lists. I
cannot vouch for all localities cited in the literature. Most historical locality records based on galls alone, if they do not
stretch a range unduly, have been presumed correctly identified, although ultimate certainty depends on identification
of the cecidomyiid inside the gall.
The distribution of a species is outlined by country, generally from west to east and north to south. State,
province or territory is specified for some of the larger countries, viz., Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Mexico,
and USA. Russia is divided into four parts: Europe, west of the Urals; Western Siberia, the Urals east to the Yenisey
River; Eastern Siberia, the Yenisey River east to Magadan Province; and the Far East, Magadan Province eastward.
This generally follows the scheme used earlier in the Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera (cf. Soós & Papp 1986) for the
division of the USSR. Larger island distribution is given for Indonesia and Japan. Abbreviations are used for the names
of only two countries, UK for United Kingdom and USA for United States of America. Fossil distribution is given as
epoch first, followed by geographic locality.
Far-flung states or parts of certain countries, e.g., Hawaii (as Hawaiian Islands here), Trinidad, and Tobago,
are treated for convenience as if they were separate countries. Washington, DC, is given as "District of Columbia" so
that it will not be confused with the State of Washington. No differentiation was made between Czech Republic and
Slovakia for older Czechoslovakian records or among the present states formerly part of Yugoslavia, except for typelocalities
and more recent records.
Distribution is drawn here with a broad brush. A listing of "France, Germany" could mean that the species
extends from the Baltic to the Mediterranean or only that it has been found on opposite banks of the Rhine. Most gall
midges are probably not very restricted within a biome and most are probably more widely distributed than presently
known. When a species has a broad range, e.g., one that has been recorded from the United Kingdom, Sweden,
Germany, Latvia, European Russia, Hungary, Spain, Italy, and Greece, its distribution is summarized here as
"widespread Europe." This avoids taking space for long lists of countries for common species. In the same way, I felt
confident in giving a designation of "widespread eastern Nearctic" for species known from, e.g., Ontario, Canada and
Florida, USA and many states between when the host occurs throughout the entire region.
Hosts.--The type host or hosts for the senior name is given first, separated by a semicolon from any additional
original or subsequent hosts. If the host became known only after the original description, the entry reads "Orig. unk.;"
followed by the host. Three or more additional original or subsequent hosts of the same genus as the type host are not
tabulated but summarized by "spp." to obviate long lists for oligophagous species. Older names for hosts are corrected
to current names, but some recent name changes are not reflected here. Authors of host names are unnecessary in the
context of this catalog and are not supplied, but the family for plant hosts, order for fungal hosts, and family and order
for animal hosts are provided because they are valuable to anyone looking for cecidomyiids that occur on certain hosts
or host groups. Many European gall makers have, subsequent to their original descriptions, been identified and
recorded based on galls. These records are included uncritically here, but some records of gall associates, including
predators and inquilines, that I suspect were not based on reared adults to critically determine them, are left out.
Type localities.--Place names are as much as possible corrected to current and consistent use. For instance,
where J.-J. Kieffer used or implied only Lorraine, I have used Moselle, the current department name for that part of
Lorraine where he lived all of his life. For another example, Kieffer variously used "La Grange," "Lagrange," "Château
de La Grange," "château de la Grange," and "forêt de La Grange" for a domicile and its surrounds near Thionville in
Moselle where he spent two months one summer tutoring a student (Fleur 1929) and collected a large number of
species that he subsequently described. All mentions of this type locality are given in this catalog as "château de La
Grange, nr Thionville." I have not added the department name for uniquely named towns in France as the French Code