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^©