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APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY
Volume 52, Issue 4, Pages 553-558Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s13355-017-0508-x
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Gall midge; Invasive plant; Useful plant; Taxonomy; Egypt
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The European sea rocket Cakile maritima Scop. (Brassicaceae) is a common herb growing on sandy coastlines worldwide and is considered a useful plant because of its medicinal importance, its edibility, and potential as an oilseed crop. However, C. maritima is an invasive plant over a wide range, e.g., eastern South America, North America, northern Iran, Australia and New Zealand, and has a limited number of associated herbivorous insects. During investigations on gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Egypt, we found a gall midge inducing flower bud galls on C. maritima and preventing fruit production, which suggested that this gall midge is a potential pest of this plant. In this paper, we describe this gall midge species, Gephyraulus zewaili Elsayed and Tokuda sp. nov., as new to science by comparing its morphology with that of close congeners. Partial sequence data of the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene are also provided.
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