| Dasineura crataegi | |
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| Button-top gall on Hawthorn | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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]