Asphondylia monacha (summer generation)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: hairy, leafy
Abundance: frequent
Shape: globular, sphere, cluster, rosette
Season: Summer, Fall
Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: bud
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.
The plant-feeding gall midges of North America
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Bud or flower gall...
Galls made up of bud leaves, often as rosette on foreshortened stem...
Rosette galls made up of 25 to hundreds of leaves...
Gall single or composite, the internal leaves not linear and narrow, merely shortened...
Larva in central cell of rosette gall, the inside lined with white mycelium of symbiotic fungi...Asphondylia monacha Osten Sacken
Osten Sacken gave as host of this species Solidago altissima, but the type galls appear to be on S. juncea...
”- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©
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