Macrodiplosis q-marilandica-linear-pocket
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Macrodiplosis
Detachable: integral
Color: red, green
Texture: hairy, hairless
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Season: Spring
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Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, on leaf veins, between leaf veins
Form: pocket
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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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Linear, raised pockets formed by pinched lamina of leaves of Quercus marilandica. On the upper side of the leaf, these are conical in cross-section along their length, sloping or nearly flat-sided up to a red peak. Below the leaf, they are similar in shape but more pubescent (comparable to the pubescence of the surrounding lamina) and lacking the red line. Observed in Texas in April.
A similar gall was observed in Massachusetts in August on Quercus velutina.
”- Gallformers Contributors: (2023) Gallformers ID Notes©
Further Information:
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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 q-marilandica-linear-pocket on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
