Asphondylia floccosa
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, white
Texture: woolly
Abundance:
Shape: tuft
Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
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Location: stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous, polythalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Woolly Stem Gall Midge
Synonymy: 
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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Large, woolly stem gall [on A. polycarpa] not covered with small leaf clusters...Asphondylia floccosa Gagné
Masses of galls are 0.5–1.5 cm in diameter on apices of plants in the summer and are 1–10 cm in diameter and farther down on the plant in winter. They are monothalamous or polythalamous, white, sometimes pink basally...
- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©
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