Rhopalomyia ampullaria

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Rhopalomyia
Detachable: detachable
Color: red, white
Texture: hairy
Abundance:
Shape: conical
Season: Summer, Winter
Related:
Alignment:
Walls:
Location: leaf midrib, leaf edge
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Urn Gall Midge
Synonymy:
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New Western Gall Midges

[Felt is describing the leaf gall; use arrows at right for flower gall description]

A somewhat flask-shaped or subconical, solitary or confluent white pubescent leaf gall, diameter at base 2 mm., height 3 mm. ... [T]he basal portion of the gall [is] thick-walled, with an oval cell having a length of about 1.5 mm. and a distal tubular, thin-walled portion separated from the larval cell only by a thin, matted layer of filaments, the top being light filled with a curled, woolly mass.

- EP Felt: (1916) New Western Gall Midges©


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