BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Oligotrophus tarda (Roskam) (a gall midge)

Suggested Literature

Oligotrophus tarda may be covered by literature listed under:

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Oligotrophus tarda is associated with:

	larva	Betula pendula - Silver Birch (Betulaceae)	larva causes gall of live, wingless or with reduced wings fruit		Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R., 1992 [gall rounded, glabrous, usually just over 2mm long, by up to 2mm wide; with or without window pit]
	larva	Betula pubescens - Downy Birch (Betulaceae)	larva causes gall of live, wingless or with reduced wings fruit		Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R., 1992 [gall rounded, glabrous, usually just over 2mm long, by up to 2mm wide; with or without window pit]

There may be more taxa associated with Oligotrophus tarda listed at higher taxonomic level

Associated with Oligotrophus tarda:

	gall, larva	gall of larva with inquiline larva	Dasineura fastidiosa (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)		Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R., 1992
	gall, larva	gall of larva with inquiline larva	Dasineura interbracta (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)		Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R., 1992
	larva	larva is endoparasitoid host of larva	Aprostocetus clavicornis - a chalcid wasp (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)		Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R., 1992
	larva	larva is endoparasitoid host of larva	Aprostocetus constrictus - a chalcid wasp (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)		Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R., 1992
	larva	larva is endoparasitoid host of larva	Aprostocetus pallipes - a chalcid wasp (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)		Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R., 1992
	larva	larva is endoparasitoid host of larva	Metaclisis phragmitis (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)		Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R., 1992
	larva	larva is endoparasitoid host of larva	Platygaster betulae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)		Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R., 1992

Oligotrophus tarda may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

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