Neolasioptera rudbeckiae
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Neolasioptera
Hosts: Rudbeckia laciniata
Detachable: integral
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Shape: spindle
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
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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.
33rd Report of the State Entomologist on injurious and other insects of the state of New York
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Rudbeckia (coneflower)
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Tapered stem swelling...Neolasioptera rudbeckiae (Felt)
Occasionally one larva lives in the stem pith without causing an enlargement. This species has also been reared from the soft tissue of galls of Asphondylia rudbeckiaeconspicua. More than one generation per year may occur because an adult was reared from galls in September. Host: R. laciniata.
”- EP Felt, John M. Clarke: (1917) 33rd Report of the State Entomologist on injurious and other insects of the state of New York©
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