Saperda inornata
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cerambycidae | Genus: Saperda
Hosts: Populus grandidentata / Populus tremuloides
Detachable: integral
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Alignment: integral
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Location: stem
Form: non-gall, hidden cell
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Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.
Insect galls of Springfield, Massachusetts, and vicinity
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Mecas inornata
Saperda inornata
Populus grandidentata, tremuloides
Irregularly spherical swelling of the twig, 1-3 cm. in diameter. At first smooth, pithy, in second season becomes cracked without and hollow within. Beetle bores its way out in May. On Populus grandidentata and P. tremuloides.
”- FA Stebbins: (1910) Insect galls of Springfield, Massachusetts, and vicinity©
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