Lygocecis packardi

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Lygocecis
Detachable: integral
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Alignment: integral
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling, hidden cell
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

Lygocecis packardi

Host: several species of willow from Massachusetts to Texas

Salix
Swollen twigs
Internodal twig swelling without foreshortening the stem
Twig swelling tapered, woody, sometimes barely noticeable

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L packardi, L porterae, and two other, undescribed species of Lygocecis in the USNM, were reared from enlarged willow stems. These species have sawlike ovipositors evidently used to insert their eggs into willow shoots.

Range: Massachusetts to Texas

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


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