Gnorimoschema b-sarothroides-leaf-gall-moth
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Gelechiidae | Genus: Gnorimoschema
Hosts: Baccharis sarothroides
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: leafy
Abundance:
Shape: spindle
Season: Spring
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Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, leaf midrib, on leaf veins, leaf edge
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Leaf Gall Moth
Synonymy: 
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.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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Leaf-Gall Moth
Gnorimoschema sp.
[Plate 415; page 245]
Galls are composed of tightly bound, swollen leaves that are held together like the staves of a barrel.
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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Unless noted otherwise in the ID Notes, observations of this gall are collected in the Observation Field Gallformers Code with value b-sarothroides-leaf-gall-moth on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
