Asphondylia a-salsola-medusa-gall-midge
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Hosts: Ambrosia salsola
Detachable: detachable
Color: white
Texture: woolly, hairy
Abundance:
Shape: tuft
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Walls:
Location: bud, stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Medusa 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.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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Medusa Gall Midge
Asphondylia sp. C
This new species induces white, woolly, monothalamous bud galls on cheesebush, with long, soft, reddish-brown projections protruding from the gall mass.
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-medusa-gall-midge on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
