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Walshomyia cupressi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Genus:	Walshomyia
Species:	W. cupressi
Binomial name
Walshomyia cupressi Gagné, 1969

Walshomyia cupressi is a North American species of midge that induces galls on pygmy cypress and Sargent cypress trees in California and Oregon. The larval stage lasts for almost two years before adults emerge from exit holes from the side of the gall. The holotype species was collected in 1967 in Mendocino County, California and described by Raymond Gagné in 1969.

References

1. "Walshomyia cupressi (Cypress Gall Midge)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
2. ^ Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant Galls of the Western United States. Princeton University Press. pp. 70–71. doi:10.1515/9780691213408. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. LCCN 2020949502. OCLC 1239984577. S2CID 238148746.
3. "Walshomyia cupressi". www.gallformers.org. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
4. Gagné, R. J. (January 1969). A review of the genus Walshomyia including a new species from Cupressus galls in California. Vol. 45. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Entomological Society. pp. 16–19 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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