Unknown salix-midrib-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Tenthredinidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: integral
Color: red, yellow, green
Texture: hairless
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Alignment: integral
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Location: lower leaf, leaf midrib
Form: abrupt swelling
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Plant Galls of the Western United States

Unknown #3
Midrib-gall sawfly
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Host: Salix spp [Salix planifolia listed as a placeholder]

Galls are asymmetrical, bulging out on one side of the ventral midrib and are at least three to four times larger than the normal vein.

Range: Pacific States

- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©


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