Parallelodiplosis subtruncata
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Parallelodiplosis
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, yellow, green, purple, tan
Texture: hairless
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Season: Summer
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form: leaf blister, leaf spot
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Cecidomyia subtruncata
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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Circular or oval, usually reddish, blister gall...Parallelodiplosis subtruncata (Felt)
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P. subtruncata. This species is in every active blister gall I have seen, so is evidently the gall maker. The galls are about 4 mm in diameter and are usually on the leaf laminas but may also occur on the veins and petiole...Hosts: C. florida, C. racemosa, C. stolonifera...
[Elsewhere discusses Lasioptera corni Felt, which was reported once from the same galls - concludes that it was likely not the gall inducer]
”- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©
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