Catotrichinae
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Catotricha americana
Catotricha americana is a species of gall midge in the family Cecidomyiidae, described by American entomologist Ephraim Porter Felt in 1908. It is the type species of the genus Catotricha, a basal lineage within the gall midge family. The species has been confirmed to occur only in New Hampshire, and no observations of living specimens have been recorded in biodiversity databases. As a member of Cecidomyiidae, it likely forms galls on plant tissue, though specific host plants and gall morphology remain undocumented.