Neolasioptera perfoliata

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Neolasioptera
Detachable: integral
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Alignment: integral
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

Woody, tapered stem swelling (192) ....... Neolasioptera perfoliata (Felt)

Swellings appear near the upper part of the flowering stems. Larvae overwinter in the stems. Hosts: E. hyssopifolium, E. perfoliatum. Distr.: Massachusetts to Virginia.

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


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