Iteomyia salicifolia

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Iteomyia
Detachable: integral
Color: red, yellow
Texture: hairy, hairless
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Summer
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form: leaf blister
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

Iteomyia salicifolia

Host: Salix sp.

Salix
Leaf gall
Spherical gall protruding from only one side of leaf

[A drawing of this gall appears on page 282, Figure 414b]

Galls are monothalamous and about 2 mm in diameter. Full-grown larvae leave the galls in late summer and spin cocoons in which they overwinter.

Range: NY

- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©


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