Rhopalomyia guttata

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Rhopalomyia
Detachable: detachable
Color: red, white, green
Texture: glaucous
Abundance: rare
Shape: conical, cylindrical
Season: Fall
Related:
Alignment: drooping
Walls: thin
Location: flower, stem
Form: modified capitulum
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Revision of the goldenrod-galling Rhopalomyia species (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in North America
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The galls were found by R.J. Gagné in capitula, carried on a pedicel among normal capitula but shorter and hidden by them. The gall is conical-cylindrical, smooth, white to green, or sometimes red, and apically tapering. Each gall contains a single larva. A galled capitulum is wider and harder to the touch than capitula without galls.

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- Netta Dorchin, Miles V. McEvoy, Todd A. Dowling, Warren G. Abrahamson, Joseph G. Moore: (2009) Revision of the goldenrod-galling Rhopalomyia species (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in North America©


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Netta Dorchin, Miles V. McEvoy, Todd A. Dowling, Warren G. Abrahamson, Joseph G. Moore
2009
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