Rhopalomyia erigerontis

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Rhopalomyia
Detachable: integral
Color: red, white
Texture: pubescent
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Season: Summer
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Alignment: integral
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Location: bud, stem
Form: abrupt swelling, stem club
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New Western Gall Midges

Rhopalomyia erigerontis new species

Hosts: Erigeron fragilis [foliosus]

This is an oval apical bud deformation with a length of 10 mm. and a diameter of 7 mm., the modified leaflets being thickly clothed with a short white pubescence.

Range: CA

- EP Felt: (1916) New Western Gall Midges©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8184696#page/227/mode/1up


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