Dasineura mali (apple leaf-curling midge)

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Identity

Preferred Scientific Name

• Dasineura mali (Kieffer)

Preferred Common Name

• apple leaf-curling midge

Other Scientific Names

• Cecidomyia mali (Kieffer)
• Dasyneura mali (Kieffer)
• Perrisia mali Kieffer 1909

International Common Names

• English: apple leaf midge
• Spanish: mosquilla de las hojas del manzano
• French: cécidomyie des feuilles du pommier; cécidomyie du pommier

Local Common Names

• Germany: Apfelblattgallmücke; Gallmücke, Apfelblatt-
• Italy: cecidomia delle foglie del melo
• Netherlands: appelbladgalmug

EPPO code

• DASYMA (Dasineura mali)

Taxonomic Tree

• Domain: Eukaryota
•     Kingdom: Metazoa
•         Phylum: Arthropoda
•             Subphylum: Uniramia
•                 Class: Insecta
•                     Order: Diptera
•                         Family: Cecidomyiidae
•                             Genus: Dasineura
•                                 Species: Dasineura mali

Distribution Table

The distribution in this summary table is based on all the information available. When several references are cited, they may give conflicting information on the status. Further details may be available for individual references in the Distribution Table Details section which can be selected by going to Generate Report.

Host plants/Plants Affected

Growth Stages

List of Symptoms

Natural Enemies

Plant Trade

References

Allison PA, Meekings JS, Tomkins AR, Wilson DJ, 1995. Effects of leaf damage by apple leafcurling midge (Dasyneura mali) on photosynthesis of apple leaves. Proceedings of the Forty Eighth New Zealand Plant Protection Conference, Angus Inn, Hastings, New Zealand, August 8-10, 1995., 121-124; 6 ref.

Barnes HF, 1948. Gall Midges of Economic Importance. Vol. III: Gall Midges of Fruit. London, UK: Crosby Lockwood.

CABI/EPPO, 2008. Dasineura mali. [Distribution map]. Distribution Maps of Plant Pests, December (1st revision). Wallingford, UK: CABI, Map 711.

Carl KP, 1980. Observations on the apple leaf-curling midge, Dasineura mali Kieffer and a new species from apple leaf-galls, Macrolabis sp. (Dipt. Cecidomyiidae). Anzeiger fur Schadlingskunde Pflanzenschutz Umweltschutz, 53(7):99-102.

Chapman RB, Evans AM, 1995. Assessment of azinphos-methyl resistance in apple leafcurling midge from New Zealand apple orchards. Proceedings of the Forty Eighth New Zealand Plant Protection Conference, Angus Inn, Hastings, New Zealand, August 8-10, 1995., 64-67; 10 ref.

Edland T, 1991. A new pest for Norway: apple leaf gallmidge recorded in Telemark. Gartneryrket, 81(19):16-17.

Epenhuijsen CW van, Wright S, de Silva HN, Popay AJ, 1992. Evaluation of organic pest control agents. In: Proceedings of the Forty Eighth New Zealand Plant Protection Conference, Angus Inn, Hastings, New Zealand, August 8-10, 1995, 103-110.

Gagné RJ, 1989. The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America. Ithaca, USA: Cornell University Press.

GagnT RJ, 1989. Family Cecidomyiidae. In: Evenhuis NL, ed. Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Bishop Museum Special Publication 86. Hawaii, USA: Bishop Museum Press, 152-165.

GagnT RJ, Harris MO, 1998. The distinction between Dasineura spp. (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from apple and pear. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, in press.

Gratwick M, 1992. Crop pests in the UK: collected edition of MAFF leaflets. Crop pests in the UK: collected edition of MAFF leaflets., x + 490 pp.; [Co-published with Van Nostrand Reinhold, Inc., New York, USA].

Ivanov S, Slavov N, 1979. The apple leaf midge and its control. Rastitelna Zashchita, 27(1):17-21.

Kolbe W, 1982. Occurrence and control of pear leaf-curling midge and apple leaf-curling midge. Pflanzenschutz-Nachrichten Bayer, 35(3):291-308.

MacPhee AW, Finnamore DB, 1978. The apple leaf midge, Dasineura mali (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), in New Brunswick apple orchards. Canadian Entomologist, 110(12):1363-1364.

Molnar J, 1988. The occurrence and control of Dasyneura mali Kieffer in the county of Szabolcs-Szatmar. Novenyvedelem, 24(8):370-373.

Penman DR, Chapman RB, 1980. Woolly apple aphid outbreak following use of fenvalerate in apples in Canterbury, New Zealand. Journal of Economic Entomology, 73(1):49-51.

Simova-Tosic D, 1974. Contribution to the study of the apple-leaf midge Dasyneura mali Kieffer (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Zastita Bilja, 25(127):49-53.

Skuhrava M, 1986. Family Cecidomyiidae. In: Soós A, Papp L, eds. Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 4 Sciaridae - Anisopodidae. Budapest, Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó, 72-297.

Smith JT, Chapman RB, Popay AJ, 1995. A survey of apple leafcurling midge (Dasyneura mali) in the Nelson District. In: Proceedings of the Forty Eighth New Zealand Plant Protection Conference, Angus Inn, Hastings, NewZealand, August 8-10, 1995, 121-124.

Sylvén E, Carlbäcker U, 1981. Morphometric studies on Oligotrophini adults (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) including an attempt to correct for allometric deviations. Entomologica Scandinavica, 15:185-210.

Sylven E, Carlbacker U, 1983. Allometric relationships concerning antenna and wing in Oligotrophini (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). Acta Entomologica Fennica, 42:90-102

Tomkins AR, 1995. Activity of insecticides against apple leafcurling midge (Dasyneura mali) and woolly apple aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum). Proceedings of the Forty Eighth New Zealand Plant Protection Conference, Angus Inn, Hastings, New Zealand, August 8-10, 1995., 149-151; 6 ref.

Tomkins AR, Wilson DJ, Hutchings SO, June S, 1994. A survey of apple leafcurling midge (Dasyneura mali) management in Waikato orchards. Proceedings of the Forty Seventh New Zealand Plant Protection Conference, Waitangi Hotel, New Zealand, 9-11 August, 1994 [edited by Popay, A. J.] Rotorua, New Zealand; New Zealand Plant Protection Society, 346-349

Trapman M, 1988. Apple leaf gall midge population build-up and natural regulation. Fruitteelt, 78(8):34-35.

Distribution Maps

• = Present, no further details
• = Evidence of pathogen
• = Widespread
• = Last reported
• = Localised
• = Presence unconfirmed
• = Confined and subject to quarantine
• = See regional map for distribution within the country
• = Occasional or few reports

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