Macrodiplosis q-marilandica-bubble-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Macrodiplosis
Hosts: Quercus marilandica
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: pubescent, hairy, succulent
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Spring
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: lower leaf, on leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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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.
Gallformers ID Notes
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Large, irregularly globular vein pockets on the lower side of Quercus marilandica leaves, leaving a narrowly pinched linear opening above. These galls resemble those of Dryocosmus quercuspalustris in their thin, succulent, green walls, with the same pubescence as the leaf, but contain loose cecidomyiid larvae rather than a free-rolling cynipid cell, and externally are of a more irregularly globular shape. It is similar in phenology and form to the early Macrodiplosis galls found on some other eastern red oaks but seems to be considerably larger and more globular. Tentatively placed in Macrodiplosis based on the host genus and gall affinity.
Observed in Texas in April (2)
”- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©
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