Diplolepis rosae

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Diplolepis
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, pink, red, green, black, purple
Texture: leafy
Abundance:
Shape: tuft
Season: Summer, Fall
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: bud, upper leaf, lower leaf, leaf midrib, stem
Form:
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Pincushion Gall Wasp
Synonymy:
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The North American Species of Rhodites and their galls.

Gall (Plate XLIII, Figs. 5, 6). -- Polythalamous. Composed of an agglomeration of hard cells around a branch, and it is densely covered with long, green filaments forming a moss-like mass. It measures from 25 to about 50 mm. in diameter. Occurs on the twigs of sweet briar (Rosa rubiginosa and Rosa blanda).
Habitat: Europe; Western Asia; Canada; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; (New England States); New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; (Middle States); Kansas; Colorado.

- William Beutenmueller: (1907) The North American Species of Rhodites and their galls.©


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