[2][3][4] The species was first described in 1908 by Ephraim Porter Felt from a collection made by Norman Criddle in Aweme, Manitoba, Canada.

[1][5] The holotype, an adult male, is in the New York State Museum collection.

[5] The midge causes galls to form on the terminal buds of native roses (Rosa spp.)

The galls are tightly packed leafy rosettes with a central cavity.

[5] Both Radophaga and Dasineura are within the tribe Dasineurini, a group of plant feeders that share several physical similarities.