Neolasioptera s-mexicana-bladder-sage-gall-midge

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Neolasioptera
Detachable: integral
Color: green
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Alignment: integral
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
Cells: monothalamous
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Common Name(s): Bladder Sage Gall Midge
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Plant Galls of the Western United States

Bladder Sage Gall Midge (Neolasioptera sp.)

This stem gall midge induces tapered, symmetrical, monothalamous integral stem galls on bladder sage (Scutellaria Mexicana). Galls usually occur at joints or on new growth of lateral branches.

Host:
Scutellaria mexicana

- 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 s-mexicana-bladder-sage-gall-midge on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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