Dasineura crataegi | |
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Button-top gall on Hawthorn | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Cecidomyiidae |
Genus: | Dasineura |
Species: | D. crataegi
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Binomial name | |
Dasineura crataegi (Winnertz, 1853)
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Dasineura crataegi, the hawthorn button-top gall-midge, is a dipteran gall-midge. It causes the hawthorn button-top gall, which develops in the terminal shoots of common hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna Jacq., Midland hawthorn C laevigata (Poir.) DC and their hybrid, C × media Bechst.[1][2] Synonyms are Perrisia crataegi and Cecidomyia crataegi (Winnertz, 1853).[3]