Meunieriella u-sessilifolia-leaf-spot
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Meunieriella
Detachable: integral
Color: gray, yellow, green
Texture: hairless
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Season: Summer
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form: leaf spot
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Unknown u-sessilifolia-leaf-spot
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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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A number of American Liliaceae have simple leaf spot galls about 8 mm in diameter made by unidentified cecidomyiids for which the adult stage has not been reared. Each spot contains a single larva that leaves the gall when full-grown. At that time the spot becomes translucent and more noticeable...
[Lists Maianthemum canadense, Polygonatum biflorum, Smilacina racemosa [Maianthemum racemosum], and Uvularia sessilifolia as hosts for this gall.]
”- 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 u-sessilifolia-leaf-spot on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
