thumb|Asphondylia solidaginis, gall in goldenrod (Solidago) thumb|Asphondylia solidaginis pupa in its gall
thumb|Asphondylia solidaginis, gall in goldenrod (Solidago) thumb|Asphondylia solidaginis pupa in its gall
Asphondylia is a cosmopolitan genus of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. All species in this genus induce galls on plants, especially on flowers and flower buds. There are over 300 described species in the genus Asphondylia, with many more likely to be discovered and described, especially in the southern hemisphere.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).