Dasineura balsamicola
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Dasineura
Detachable: integral
Color: brown
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Shape: spindle
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Location: between leaf veins, leaf edge
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Cecidomyia balsamicola
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.
Biology and Taxonomy of Two Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Found in Galls on Balsam Fir Needles with Description of a New Species of Paradiplosis
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One species, Paradiplosis tumifex (Gagné), n. sp., is responsible for the gall [needle gall of balsam fir]; the other, Dasineura balsamicola (Lintner), is an inquiline that enters the newly forming gall and eventually indirectly kills the larva of P. tumifex.
”- Eben A. Osgood, RJ Gagne: (1978) Biology and Taxonomy of Two Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Found in Galls on Balsam Fir Needles with Description of a New Species of Paradiplosis©
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