Lygocecis porterae
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Lygocecis
Hosts: Salix exigua
Detachable: integral
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Alignment: integral
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling, hidden cell
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Rhabdophaga porterae
Sackenomyia porterae
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America
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Lygocecis porterae
Host: a willow
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: New Mexico
”- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©
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