Pemphigus p-fremontii-midrib-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Aphididae | Genus: Pemphigus
Detachable: integral
Color: yellow, green
Texture: hairless
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Summer, Spring
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls: slit
Location: lower leaf, leaf midrib
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Cells:
Possible Range:i
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Plant Galls of the Western United States

Pemphigus sp. B
Midrib-gall aphid
[Page 64; plates 43 & 44]

Hosts: Populus fremontii

This aphid induces large, globular galls that protrude from the ventral midrib of Fremont cottonwood leaves.

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


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