Unknown salix-sack-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Hosts: Salix gooddingii / Salix laevigata
Detachable: detachable
Color: orange, pink, green
Texture: hairless
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Shape: conical, globular
Season: Summer
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Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, leaf midrib, on leaf veins, between leaf veins
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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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A large, hairless, irregularly globular red-orange sack gall on the lower side of leaves of an undetermined Salix species. A similar gall has been reported on Salix laevigata. Observed in Arizona in July and August.
This gall bears a resemblance to the undescribed sawfly "near Pontania pacifica" described from Salix lasiolepis in Arizona.
It is interesting to note that the two tentatively assigned hosts of this undescribed species, Salix laevigata and gooddingii, were specifically noted by Smith as "the only willows in the California area wholly found to lack" Euura/Pontania galls (page 42, second to last paragraph on left column).
”- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©
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