Asphondylia atriplicis
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Detachable: integral
Color: orange, red, white, yellow, green, tan
Texture: stiff, mottled
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Shape: globular, sphere
Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: stem
Form: abrupt swelling
Cells: polythalamous
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Cecidomyia atriplicis
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 plant-feeding gall midges of North America
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Atriplex (saltbush)
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1a. Galls on Atriplex canescens...2
2a. Simple nonleafy enlargements of stem...3
3b. Swelling spherical, soft, and succulent...Asphondylia atriplicis (Townsend)
Galls are green to red, monothalamous or polythalamous, often in tandem, occasionally in a series as long as 10 cm. All stages of this gall maker can be found all year. Host: A. canescens...
”- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©
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