Neolasioptera a-salsola-stem-gall-midge
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Neolasioptera
Hosts: Ambrosia salsola
Detachable: integral
Color: green, tan
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Shape: spindle
Season: Spring, Summer
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
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Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Stem 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.
The plant-feeding gall midges of North America
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Tapered stem swelling...Neolasioptera sp.
Adults emerged from galls in August. Hosts: H. salsola [= A. salsola per POWO 2023], Hymenoclea sp.
”- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©
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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-midge on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
