Polystepha serrata

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Polystepha
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, yellow
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form: leaf spot
Cells: monothalamous
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31st Report of the State Entomologist on Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York

Cincticornia serrata

This species was reared in June 1908 from circular blister galls on scarlet oak, Quercus coccinea, taken near Boston MA.

Gall: The dark brown, broadly yellow-margined blister gall is circular and about 3 mm in diameter. The galls occur here and there upon the leaf.

- EP Felt: (1915) 31st Report of the State Entomologist on Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36619989#page/542/mode/1up


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