Contarinia l-cooperi-cabbage-gall-midge
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Contarinia
Hosts: Lycium cooperi
Detachable: detachable
Color: green
Texture: pubescent, hairy, leafy
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Season: Spring
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Location: bud, stem
Form:
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Cabbage Gall Mide
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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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Cabbage Gall Midge Pl. 383
Contarinia sp.
The polythalamous, round, axillary bud gall of this midge appears at swollen stem nodes on box-thorn in spring. New galls have a round central larval chamber with an extremely hard, 1 mm thick outer shell surrounded by broad, hairy, leafy, bracts that resemble cabbage leaves.
Host:
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-cabbage-gall-midge on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
