Dasineura alnus-fold-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Dasineura
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: hairy
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Season: Summer, Spring
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Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, leaf midrib
Form: leaf curl
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Possible Range:i
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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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Alnus (alder)
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Folded leaflet...Dasineura sp.
Young leaves are folded in half along the long axis. Larvae spin cocoons in the folds and pupate there. Host: A. rubra. Distr.: British Columbia to Oregon.
”- 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 alnus-fold-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
