Gnorimoschema octomaculella
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Gelechiidae | Genus: Gnorimoschema
Hosts: Ericameria nauseosa
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Color: gray, white, green
Texture: hairy
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Location: lower leaf, leaf edge
Form: leaf snap
Cells: monothalamous
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Gnorimoschema octomaculellum
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.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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BENT-GALL MOTH Gnorimoschema octomaculell[a] Pl. 489
This moth induces pointed, monothalamous galls in terminal leaves of new shoots in spring on rubber rabbitbrush. Galls are typically bent at a 45-degree angle ... They are composed of swollen, succulent, distorted terminal leaves that are tightly bound together like the staves of a barrel ...
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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