Dasineura a-rubrum-expanded-veins

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Dasineura
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Location: lower leaf, on leaf veins, at leaf vein angles
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

Dasineura sp.

Host: Acer rubrum

Veins at junctures on underside of leaf expanded and compressed against the leaf surface [illustration shows galls in the vein angles]
Galls are visible only from the underside of the leaf. They appear in spring, and each contains one larva.

Range: MD

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


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