Walshomyia j-osteosperma-tube-gall-midge
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Walshomyia
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, orange, yellow, tan
Texture: glaucous, hairless
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Shape: conical
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Location: bud, stem, leaf edge
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Common Name(s): Juniper Tube Gall Midge, Tube Gall Midge (Walshomyia sp. C)
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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.
Gallformers ID Notes
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Juniper Tube Gall Midge
*Walshomiya sp. C
Tubular, yellow to brown, bud galls which occur singly and measure 6mm long by 3mm wide. When mature, galls split into lobes at the apex with a central exit hole.
Photos of this gall can be found in Ronald Russo's Field Guide to Plant Galls of California and Other Western States (2006) on page 109 and in his 2021 publication, Plant Galls of the Western United States, on page 82.
Additional observations of this gall can be seen here and here .
Host:
Juniperus osteosperma (syn. Juniperus utahensis)
- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©
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Unless noted otherwise in the ID Notes, observations of this gall are collected in the Observation Field Gallformers Code with value j-osteosperma-tube-gall-midge on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
