Dasineura pilosa
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Dasineura
Hosts: Laportea canadensis
Detachable: detachable
Color: red, white, green, black, purple
Texture: pubescent, hairy, mottled
Abundance:
Shape: sphere
Season: Summer
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Alignment:
Walls: thick, false chamber
Location: leaf midrib, on leaf veins, between leaf veins, stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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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.
The Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Cecidomyiinae) From Allegheny County Pennsylvania
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Dasineura pilosa produces a spherical, fuzzy stem gall (Fig. 235) on Laportea canadensis. These galls are from 10-15 mm long, with one larva per gall. Dasineura pilosa exhibits one generation a year, with the larvae overwintering in the gall.
Adults have not been reared to date. This species is known only from the gall and the larva.
- JD Plakidas: (2016) The Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Cecidomyiinae) From Allegheny County Pennsylvania©
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