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Aciurina idahoensis

Family: Tephritidae | Genus: Aciurina

Hosts: Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

Detachable: detachable

Color: green

Texture: hairy, leafy

Abundance:

Shape: conical

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Walls:

Location: bud

Form:

Cells: monothalamous

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Photographed in Idaho in April.

Image by beetleman © CC-BY

Photographed in Idaho in April.

Image by beetleman © CC-BY

"Full size gall containing a puparium."

Image by Richard D. Goeden and Jeffrey A. Teerink © CC-BY

"Developing gall that contained a second instar."

Plant Galls of the Western United States

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Aciurina idahoensis
Leafy-cone-gall Tephritid

Galls have numerous relatively thin, leafy bracts (bud scales) that stick out and sometimes recurve from the main gall body.

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

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Richard D. Goeden and Jeffrey A. Teerink

1996

Life History and Descriptions of Adults and Immature Stages of Aciurina idahoensis Steyskal (Diptera: Tephritidae) on Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hooker) Nuttall in Southern California

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Russo, Ronald A.

2021

Plant Galls of the Western United States

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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