Asphondylia a-hymenelytra-pom-pom-bud-gall-midge
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, red
Texture: woolly
Abundance:
Shape: tuft
Season: Fall, Winter, Spring
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Walls:
Location: bud, stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Pom Pom Bud Gall Midge
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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.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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Pom Pom Bud Gall Midge
Asphondylia sp.
This midge induces woolly, round, monothalamous bud galls on desert-holly. Some galls are dusty pink, while others have white-tipped red hairs or are bright reddish pink, resembling pom-poms.
Host: Atriplex hymenelytra
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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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 a-hymenelytra-pom-pom-bud-gall-midge on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
