Phyllocolpa robusta
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Tenthredinidae | Genus: Phyllocolpa
Hosts: Populus deltoides / Populus tremuloides
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: hairless
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Season: Spring
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Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: leaf edge
Form: non-gall, leaf edge fold
Cells: not applicable
Possible Range:i
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Euura robusta
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.
Types and biological notes of the eastern North American sawflies of Pontania Costa and Phyllocolpa Benson (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) described by Marlatt, Dyar, and Rohwer
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Pontania robusta
Type locality. — "Michigan and District of Columbia (?)." The lectotype is labeled "Ag. Coll. Mich.," presumably East Lansing.
Host. — Populus tremuloides Michx.
Notes. — This is a valid species of Phyllocolpa in the leucapsis group. The larva and biology were described by Dyar (1897b). It produces leaf folds on aspen, as was confirmed by Smith and Fritz (1996). There is one generation a year.
”- Alexey Zinovjev, David Smith: (1999) Types and biological notes of the eastern North American sawflies of Pontania Costa and Phyllocolpa Benson (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) described by Marlatt, Dyar, and Rohwer©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16194684#page/373/mode/1up
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