Rhopalomyia glutinosa

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Rhopalomyia
Detachable: detachable
Color: orange, green, black
Texture: hairless, succulent
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Spring
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Alignment:
Walls: thick
Location: stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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New Western Gall Midges

Gall. — These are green, glabrous, cortical stem swellings which, as they age, become brown and present a very close resemblance to a group of Lecaniums. The gall has a height of about 2 mm. and a diameter of 3.5 mm., the midge escaping through a circular apical orifice.

- EP Felt: (1916) New Western Gall Midges©


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