Asphondylia rudbeckiaeconspicua (summer generation)

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Detachable: integral
Color: green, purple
Texture: hairy, leafy
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Summer
Alignment:
Walls: thick
Location: bud, flower, stem
Form: abrupt swelling
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
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Asphondylia conspicua

New species of gall-producing cecidomyidae
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Asphondylia conspicua

Asphondylia rudbeckiae conspicua

The gall of this species is found on Rudbeckia triloba and Rudbeckia laciniata. The adult and gall were described by Osten Sacken and the gall is figured here for the first time. I have taken it in the valley of the Black Mountains, North Carolina, in August, and have also received it from Miss Alberta Field from Ashtabula, Ohio. The adults emerge late in August and early in September.

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- William Beutenmuller: (1907) New species of gall-producing cecidomyidaeŠ


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