Paradiplosis tumifex

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Paradiplosis
Detachable: integral
Color: green
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Plant Galls of the Western United States

Needle-Gall Midge
Paradiplosis tumifex

This midge induces swollen, elliptical, green-beige galls near the base of needles of white fir, balsam fir, and Fraser's fir.

- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©


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