Asphondylia pumila (spring generation)

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
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Asphondylia pumila (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Asphondyliini) a new gall midge from Allegheny County Pennsylvania, USA
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... females deposit their eggs in living meristematic tissue at the base of the host plant where they overwinter. The spring crown gall forms at this location.

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- Plakidas, John D.: (2018) Asphondylia pumila (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Asphondyliini) a new gall midge from Allegheny County Pennsylvania, USA©


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