Diplolepis lens
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Diplolepis
Hosts: Rosa nutkana
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, yellow, green, tan
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Alignment: integral
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Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form: leaf blister
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▲Notes
Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.
New American Cynipid Wasps From Galls
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Diplolepis lens, new species
Host.—Rosa nutkana
Gall.— A lentil-shaped thickening, up to 3.2 mm. in diameter by 1.7 mm. thick, in the parenchyma of the leaf in the fall. Single or several on a leaf. Similar to the gall of D. rosae Cockerell in the eastern United States.
”- LH Weld: (1952) New American Cynipid Wasps From Galls©
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