Woodlands Historic Park Galls

galls on Black Wattle Buds at Woodlands Historic Park
Galls on Black Wattle Buds, caused by a midge. Normal immature seed pods on right.

These galls are almost certainly caused by the midge Dasineura rubiformis described in Kolesik et. al. (2005).

Classification

statistics from Australian Faunal Directory

Order Diptera - Flies, 8955 named species in Australia at Nov. 2021
Family CECIDOMYIIDAE (146 species in Australia)
Genus Dasineura
Species Dasineura rubiformis

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