Contarinia partheniicola (on Ambrosia)

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Contarinia
Detachable: integral
Color: gray, white, green
Texture: pubescent, woolly, leafy
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Shape: globular, cup
Season: Spring, Fall, Winter
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Walls:
Location: bud, upper leaf, lower leaf, flower, stem
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America
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Larval cells green, not lined with a white fungus...Contarinia partheniicola (Cockerell)

Galls are 5–8 mm long, 4–5 mm wide and are found on axillary buds, along stems, on young leaves, on flowers, and along the rachis of the inflorescence. Adults have been reared in spring and fall. Hosts: A. chamissonis, A. confertiflora, A. dumosa, A. eriocentra, A. psilostachya, and Parthenium...

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- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North AmericaΒ©


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