Asphondylia enceliae

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Detachable: integral
Color: gray, white, green
Texture: pubescent, woolly, leafy
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season:
Related:
Alignment:
Walls:
Location: bud, stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Plant Galls of the Western United States

Bud-Gall Midge
Asphondylia enceliae
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This midge induces white, wooly, globular monothalamous bud galls along the leafy stems of brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) and California brittlebush (E. californica).

- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©


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