Dasineura silvestrii

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Dasineura
Detachable: integral
Color: red, green
Texture: pubescent, hairy
Abundance: common
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Location: lower leaf, leaf edge
Form: leaf edge roll, leaf edge fold
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

"Dasineura" silvestrii

Leaf fold, always with a slit-like opening
Folded, thickened lobe along leaf edge

Only larvae are known of this species; they do not fit in any known genus but belong to the Oligotrophini.

Hosts: Quercus chrysolepis, garryana, vaccinifolia

Distr: OR, CA

- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©


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