Symmetrischema l-cooperi-stem-gall-moth
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Gelechiidae | Genus: Symmetrischema
Hosts: Lycium cooperi
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, green
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
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Common Name(s): Stem Gall Moth
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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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Stem Gall Moth
Symmetrischema sp.
This moth induces elliptical, gently tapered, integral, monothalamous stem galls on both spring basal shoots and terminal branch growth of box-thorn.
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Lycium cooperi
- 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 l-cooperi-stem-gall-moth on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
