Schizomyia verbesinae
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Schizomyia
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: pubescent, leafy
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Season: Summer
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Alignment:
Walls: false chamber
Location: flower
Form:
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
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Synonymy: Pending...
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.
Key to gall midges (A resumé of studies I-VII, Itonididae)
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Cecidomyia verbesinae Beutm.
1907 Beutenmueller, William. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. 23, p. 391
The galls are budlike, rounded, obtuse, usually unilocular or sometimes flattened and occur on the flower heads of Verbesina alternifolia. Polygnotus actinomeridis Ashm. MS (Insect Life 4: 126) was apparently reared from this gall.
- EP Felt: (1925) Key to gall midges (A resumé of studies I-VII, Itonididae)©
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