Contarinia p-tremuloides-stem-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Contarinia
Hosts: Populus tremuloides
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: hairless
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Season: Spring
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Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: stem
Form: leaf curl, hidden cell
Cells: polythalamous
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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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Contarinia sp.
Stem-gall midge
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Hosts: Populus tremuloides
This gall midge induces integral polythalamous stem galls that are either straight or bent and twisted on spring terminal shoots of quaking aspen.
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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Unless noted otherwise in the ID Notes, observations of this gall are collected in the Observation Field Gallformers Code with value p-tremuloides-stem-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
