Rhopalomyia hirtipes
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Rhopalomyia
Hosts: Solidago juncea
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, gray, white, yellow, green, tan
Texture: succulent, ruptured/split, mealy
Abundance: occasional
Shape: globular, rosette
Season: Summer, Fall
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Alignment: erect, integral
Walls: thick, spongy
Location: bud, underground (roots+), stem
Form:
Cells: polythalamous
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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Smooth, large, apical gall subtended by leaf whorl...Rhopalomyia hirtipes (Osten Sacken)
Galls are succulent and polythalamous...This species is evidently responsible also for galls on the stolons and crown...
”- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©
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