Cone-Infesting Lonchaeids of the Genus Earomyia Zett., with Descriptions of Five New Species from Western North America (Diptera: Lonchaeidae)
- 1 April 1956
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 88 (4) , 178-196
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent88178-4
Abstract
Study of lonchaeid material reared from cones of various coniferous trees in North America revealed five previously undescribed species of the genus Earomyia Zett. The composite nature of cone-infesting lonchaeidae has not been understood and at least four of the species treated here have been considered as a single species (Keen, 1938, 1952). Much of the material studied, particularly that reared by various Forest Insect Investigations officers of the United States Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine (bearing Hopkins U.S. numbers), has been misidentified as Earomyia viridana (Mg.) (Keen, op. cit.), Lonchaea albitarsis Zett., L. rufitarsis Macq., L. polita Say, and others.Keywords
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