Lasioptera tibialis

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Lasioptera
Detachable: integral
Color: red, green
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
Cells: monothalamous
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

L. tibialis. This species has been reared only once from an apparent N. willistoni gall on A. canescens in California. It is otherwise known only from Keckiella (Scrophulariaceae) (q.v.), and may be an inquiline.

- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©


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