Acta entomologica serbica, 2000, 5 (1/2): 47-93 UDC 595.773 (497.11) GALL MIDGES (DIPTERA: CECIDOMYIIDAE) OF SERBIA D. SIMOVA – TOŠIÆ1, M. SKUHRAVÁ2, V. SKUHRAVÝ3 1 Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade University, Nemanjina 6, YU – 11081 Zemun, e-mail:
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[email protected] 3 Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 31, CZ – 370 05 Èeské Budìjovice The present gall midge fauna of Serbia includes 283 species of which 98 are new records for the fauna of Serbia. The majority (59%) are European, 23% are Euro-Siberian, 12% sub- Mediterranean and Mediterranean and 17% Holarctic species. Contarinia coronillae, C. istri- ana, causing galls on Coronilla emerus, and nine species associated with Quercus cerris, viz. Contarinia quercicola, C. subulifex, Dasineura tubularis, Dryomyia circinans, Janetia cerris, J. homocera, J. nervicola, J. pustularis and J. szepligetii are true Mediterranean species. Oligotrophus szepligetii causing galls on Acer tataricum is a Pannonian species; Kochiomyia kochiae causing galls on Kochia prostrata is a Pontic-Pannonian species; Neomikiella lychni- dis causing galls on Melandrium album is a Pannonian and planare species; Zeuxidiplosis gia- rdi causing galls on Hypericum perforatum is a European species with disjunct distribution. Eleven species are pests of cultivated plants, viz. Mayetiola destructor, Haplodiplosis marginata and Contarinia tritici on cereal crops; Asphondylia miki, Dasineura medicaginis and Contarinia medicaginis on fodder crops (lucerne ); on fruit crops: Lasioptera rubi (ras- berry), Dasineura tetensi (blackcurrant), Contarinia pyrivora and Dasineura pyri (pear) and Putoniella pruni on plum. About 30 species may be considered to be potential pests of agri- culture and forestry.