Asphondylia l-tridentata-scimitar-leaf-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Hosts: Larrea tridentata
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, green
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Shape: conical
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Location: bud
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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.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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Scimitar-Leaf-Gall Midge
Asphondylia sp.
This midge induces flat-sided, sword-shaped, striated, monothalamous bud galls on creosote bush. These galls are green when fresh but turn brown with age.
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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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 l-tridentata-scimitar-leaf-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
