Species Contarinia sorghicola (Coquillett, 1899)
- Diplosis sorghicola Coquillett, D.W. 1899. A cecidomyiid injurious to seeds of sorghum. Bulletin of the United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology N.S. 18: 81-82 [82].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Alabama and/or Texas.
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Widespread Australia, widespread between latitudes 40º N and S.
Introduced.
IBRA
Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: gall-inducer.
Extra Ecological Information
Pest of sorghum cultivation.
General References
Franzman, B.A. 1993. Development of Contarinia sorghicola (Coquillett) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in pedicellate sorghum spikelets. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 32: 65-66 [65] (biology)
Franzman, B.A. & Zalucki, M.P. 1993. Effect of a resistant sorghum on sorghum midge, Contarinia sorghicolum (Coquillett) populations—a simulation study. pp. 323-325 in Corey, S.A., Dall, D.J. & Milne, W.M. (eds). Pest Control and Sustainable Agriculture. Melbourne : CSIRO xiii 514 pp. [323] (crop resistance)
Harris, K.M. 1976. The sorghum midge. Annals of Applied Biology 16: 36-42 [36] (biology)
Kieffer, J.J. 1913. Diptera. Fam. Cecidomyiidae. Genera Insectorum 152: 1-346, 15 pls. [182] (as Contarinia sorghicola (Coquillett, 1889), taxonomy)
Lampo, M. 1994. The importance of refuges in the interaction between Contarinia sorghicola and its parasitic wasp Aprostocetus diplosis. Journal of Animal Ecology 63: 176-186 [176] (biology)
Lloyd, R.J., Franzmann, B.A. & Zalucki, M.P. 2007. Season incidence of Stenodiplosis sorghicola (Coquillet) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and its parasitoids on Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. in south-eastern Queensland, Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 46: 23-28
History of changes
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| 25-Feb-2013 | 25-Feb-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 16-Nov-2011 | 16-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |