Neolasioptera e-hieraciifolius-stem-swelling
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Neolasioptera
Hosts: Erechtites hieraciifolius
Detachable: integral
Color: pink, green
Texture: hairless
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Season: Fall
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Alignment: integral
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
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Image by Aidan Marshall © All Rights ReservedOur 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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Irregular stem enlargement...Neolasioptera sp.
Swellings are 2–5 cm long and 1 cm in diameter. Since adults were reared in March and August, this species has at least two generations per year. Host: E. hieraciifolia. Distr.: Florida.
- 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 e-hieraciifolius-stem-swelling on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
