Neolasioptera viburnicola
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Neolasioptera
Hosts: Viburnum dentatum
Detachable: integral
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Texture: stiff, bumpy
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Season: Winter
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Alignment: integral
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
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Lasioptera viburnicola
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New species of gall-producing cecidomyidae
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Lasioptera viburnicola sp. nov.
Gall.--Gnarly, elongate swellings on the larger branches of arrow-wood (Viburnum dentatum). It is soft, pithy inside, and the larvae make long deep channels in the wood of the branch, beneath the pithy portion of the gall. Length 30 to 75 mm; width 10 to 25 mm.
Habitat: NY
The larvae overwinter and transform in the gall.
â- William Beutenmuller: (1907) New species of gall-producing cecidomyidaeŠ
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