Rhopalomyia pedicellata

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Rhopalomyia
Detachable: detachable
Color: yellow, green, purple
Texture: glaucous, leafy, succulent, ribbed
Abundance: abundant
Shape: linear, spindle
Season: Summer, Fall
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Alignment: erect, drooping, leaning
Walls: thin
Location: bud, upper leaf, lower leaf, flower, stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

Galls are monothalamous and green to purple. The gall midge is apparently multivoltine and probably overwinters as an early instar in the plant crown. Host: E. graminifolia.

- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©


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