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Wheat midge

Sitodiplosis mosellana (Géhin, 1857)

Status not recordedinsects

The wheat midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana) is a species in the family Cecidomyiidae, order Diptera.

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Quick facts about the wheat midge

Weight
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Length
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Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the wheat midge live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the wheat midge as introduced in 1 country.

  1. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the wheat midge endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the wheat midge classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderDiptera
  5. familyCecidomyiidae
  6. genusSitodiplosis
  7. SpeciesSitodiplosis mosellana (Géhin, 1857)

Synonyms Cecidomyia mosellana, Diplosis aurantiaca, Sitodiplosis aurantiaca

Other names and names in other languages (12)
  • bejlomorka oranžováCzech
  • Orangegul hvedemygDanish
  • cécidomyie du bléFrench
  • 붉은보리혹파리Korean
  • rød hvetegallmyggNorwegian Bokmål
  • Oranje tarwegalmugDutch
  • raud kveitegallmyggNorwegian Nynorsk
  • Оранжевая злаковая галлицаRussian
  • plodomor obilnýSlovak
  • röd vetemyggaSwedish
  • Orangegul hvedegalmygDanish
  • röd vetegallmyggaSwedish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the wheat midge

Other species in the same genus Sitodiplosis.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the wheat midge an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the wheat midge as introduced in 1 country: United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the wheat midge?

The wheat midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana) belongs to the family Cecidomyiidae in the order Diptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Wheat midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/wheat-midge

MLA

“Wheat midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/wheat-midge.

BibTeX
@misc{wheat_midge_2026,
  title = {Wheat midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/wheat-midge},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}