Cecidomyia lappa
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Cecidomyia
Hosts: Spiraea alba / Spiraea salicifolia
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, green
Texture: leafy
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Shape: tuft, rosette
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Cecidomyia lappa
Clinodiplosis lappa
Previous name
Parallelodiplosis clarkei
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.
Insect galls of Springfield, Massachusetts, and vicinity
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ROSACEAE. Spiraea salicifolia.
Cecidomyia? lappa, n. s.
Terminal mass of brown or, when quite young, green, mossy in appearance, strongly resembling Rhodites rosae, but coarser. Each gall consists of an undeveloped bud, the leaves of which have the tips much elongated. The central cavity is enclosed by the overlapping leaves. Not rare. On meadow-sweet, Spiraea salicifolia.
”- FA Stebbins: (1910) Insect galls of Springfield, Massachusetts, and vicinity©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33538396#page/37/mode/1up
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