Asphondylia ambrosiae

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Detachable: integral
Color: white, green
Texture: pubescent
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Shape: globular, sphere
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Alignment: integral
Walls: mycelium lining
Location: bud
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

Larval cells lined with a white fungus...Asphondylia ambrosiae Gagné

Galls are whitish, hairier than the normal stem (especially in California specimens), and, because they are polythalamous, are generally larger than those of [Contarinia parthenicola].

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


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