Asphondylia atriplicicola

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: pubescent
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Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
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Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: petiole, leaf midrib, between leaf veins, leaf edge
Form: leaf blister
Cells: monothalamous
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Common Name(s): Asphondylia atriplicola, Blister Gall Midge, Saltbush Blister Gall Midge
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Diplosis atriplicicola

The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

Atriplex (saltbush)
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1a. Galls on Atriplex canescens...2
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2b. Bud, fruit, or leaf gall, or detachable outgrowths of stem...4
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4a. Leaf blister...*Asphondylia atriplicicola (Cockerell)

Galls are monothalamous, about 3 mm in diameter. All stages of the gall maker can be found all year round. Host: A. canescens...

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


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