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Definition of Gall gnat
1. Noun. Fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants.
Generic synonyms: Dipteran, Dipteron, Dipterous Insect, Two-winged Insects
Group relationships: Cecidomyidae, Family Cecidomyidae
Specialized synonyms: Hessian Fly, Mayetiola Destructor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gall Gnat
Literary usage of Gall gnat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Entomologist (1868)
"We have already. under the bead of the Pine-cone Willow-gall, referred to a small
Guest Gall-gnat which dwells under the leaves of the Gall, ..."
2. Bibliography of the More Important Contributions to American Economic Entomology by United States Bureau of Entomology, Nathan Banks, Samuel Henshaw (1889)
"APPENDIX II: A. Description of the rye gall-gnat. By Dr. Herman Loew [6] Views
as to the original country of the Hessian fly, [6]—The rye gall-gnat and the ..."
3. ... Report of the United States Entomological Commission by United States Entomological commission (1883)
"That the whole life-history of the Hessian fly closely agrees with that of our
rye gall-gnat cannot be denied; yet it would be hasty to take this congruity, ..."
4. Naturalist by Yorkshire Naturalists'Union (1865)
"This is the pupa of a gall-gnat, ... The Brittle Willow (S. fragilis )h subject
to the attacks of another gall-gnat that has obtained the name of ..."
5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"The gall-chamber inhabited by the maggot of the gall-gnat. ... The gall-gnat
within feeds for a little time longer on the succulent lining, and then rests ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"The life history of the gall gnat is very simple. In the spring the larva which
has spent the winter in its cell in the gall transforms into the pupa and ..."
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