Eugnosta a-salsola-stem-gall-moth
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Tortricidae | Genus: Eugnosta
Hosts: Ambrosia salsola
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, green, tan
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Abundance:
Shape: spindle
Season: Spring, Summer
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Stem Gall Moth
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.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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Stem Gall Moth
Eugnosta sp.
This new species of tortricid moth induces integral, gently tapered, symmetrical, monothalamous stem galls on the upper sections of cheesebush.
Host:
Ambrosia salsola
- 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-salsola-stem-gall-moth on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
