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Chirosia betuleti

Synonyms: Chirosia carinata; Chirosia signata; Hylemyia betuleti (homotypic); Melinia cannata; Melinia carinata

Wikipedia Abstract

The knotting gall, is caused by the dipteron fly Chirosia betuleti (Ringdahl, 1935). The gall develops in the terminal shoots of ferns, such as broad buckler fern (Dryopteris dilatata), male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas), lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina), and ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris).
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Prey / Diet

Athyrium filix-femina (common ladyfern)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Chirosia histricina1

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♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0