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A synopsis of gall midges associated with conifers, with description of a new species of the genus Kaltenbachiola Hedicke (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae: Lasiopterinae) from Yakutia, damaging cones of the Siberian spruce (Picea obovata)

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The world fauna comprises 134 species from 52 genera of gall midges associated with plants of the order Pinales (3 families, 16 genera and 74 species); 14 genera are specific to Pinales. The distribution of genera and species of gall midges over host plant taxa is described. The Holarctic genus Kaltenbachiola comprises four species all developing in the spruce (Picea spp.) cones. Earlier, K. strobi (Winnertz), widely distributed in Europe, was the only species known in the Palaearctic. A new species Kaltenbachiola anastasiae sp. n. is described, which damages cones of Picea obovata in Central Yakutia. The phylogenetic relationships of Kaltenbachiola with close genera specific to Pinales are characterized, and an updated diagnosis of the genus with additional morphometric parameters and keys to the pine-specific genera of the tribe Dasineurini and to species of the genus Kaltenbachiola are given. The host associations and specific traits of biology and distribution of Kaltenbachiola species are considered.

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  2. Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, 677890, Russia

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Original Russian Text © Z.A. Fedotova, A.I. Averenskij, 2016, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2016, Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 623–648.

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Fedotova, Z.A., Averenskij, A.I. A synopsis of gall midges associated with conifers, with description of a new species of the genus Kaltenbachiola Hedicke (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae: Lasiopterinae) from Yakutia, damaging cones of the Siberian spruce (Picea obovata). Entmol. Rev. 96, 753–774 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873816060075

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