Contarinia c-dentata-leaf-vein-fold
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Contarinia
Hosts: Castanea dentata
Detachable: integral
Color: green
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Season: Spring
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Walls: slit
Location: on leaf veins, between leaf veins, at leaf vein angles
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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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Contarinia sp.
Fold between and sometimes across veins, without conspicuous invagination on opposite sides of leaf
These galls distort unfolding leaves in early spring
Narrow, longitudal or diagonal folds
Host: C. dentata
Distr: MA, NY to NC
- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©
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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 c-dentata-leaf-vein-fold on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
