''Dasineura'' is a genus of
midge
A midge is any small fly, including species in several families of non-mosquito Nematoceran Diptera. Midges are found (seasonally or otherwise) on practically every land area outside permanently arid deserts and the frigid zones. Some mid ...
s in the
family Cecidomyiidae, some of which cause
galls
Galls (from the Latin , 'oak-apple') or ''cecidia'' (from the Greek , anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to be ...
on plants such as ''
Dasineura crataegi
''Dasineura crataegi'', the hawthorn button-top gall-midge, is a dipteran gall-midge. It causes the hawthorn button-top gall, which develops in the terminal shoots of common hawthorn, ''Crataegus monogyna'' Jacq., Midland hawthorn '' C laevigata ...
'' on hawthorn (''
Crataegus monogyna'') and ''
Dasineura fraxinea
''Dasineura'' is a genus of midges in the family Cecidomyiidae, some of which cause galls on plants such as ''Dasineura crataegi'' on hawthorn (''Crataegus monogyna'') and '' Dasineura fraxinea'' on ash (''Fraxinus excelsior
''Fraxinus excel ...
'' on ash (''
Fraxinus excelsior'').
See also
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List of ''Dasineura'' species
File:Larva Dasineura salicifoliae in gall.jpg, Larva of ''Dasineura salicifoliae'' in gall
File:Galls Dasineura salicifoliae.jpg, Galls of ''Dasineura salicifoliae''
File:Dasineura tumidosae larvae closeup2.jpg, Larvae of ''Dasineura tumidosae''
File:Dasineura pellex larva.jpg, Larva of ''Dasineura pellex''
File:Dasineura carbonaria larva.jpg, Larva of ''Dasineura carbonaria''
File:Dasineura brassicae adult (24562493456).jpg, ''Dasineura brassicae'', adult
File:Agalla sobre genista - Las bolitas peludas (16289042645).jpg, Galls of ''Dasineura scorpii''
References
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Cecidomyiidae genera
Taxa named by Camillo Rondani
Cecidomyiinae