Mompha e-canum-leaf-shell
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Hosts: Epilobium canum
Detachable: integral
Color: pink, green
Texture: hairy, leafy
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Season: Spring
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: bud, between leaf veins
Form: non-gall
Cells: not applicable
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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.
Gallformers ID Notes
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A shelter composed of tightly clasping leaves containing a lepidopteran larva and frass. On Epilobium canum. Observed in California in May. For discussion of the differences from the very similar Contarinia zauschneriae gall, also on E. canum, see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114576540 and, more recently, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175116215
”- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©
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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 e-canum-leaf-shell on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
