Asphondylia solidaginis (leaf snap)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Hosts: Solidago altissima / Solidago gigantea
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, orange, yellow, green
Texture: pubescent, hairy, hairless, leafy
Abundance: abundant
Shape: globular
Season: Summer, Spring
Related: Asphondylia solidaginis (bud)
Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: bud, upper leaf, lower leaf
Form: leaf blister, leaf snap
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.
The plant-feeding gall midges of North America
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Gall formed by two leaves appressed together to form a blister gall...Asphondylia solidaginis BeutenmĂźller
Each of the two leaves involved forms one half of the unicellular, ovoid, 4â5 mm diameter, white-fungus-lined gall...
â- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North AmericaŠ
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