Epiblema discretivana

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Family: Tortricidae | Genus: Epiblema

Hosts: Baccharis angustifolia / Baccharis glomeruliflora / Baccharis halimifolia

Detachable: Integral

Color: brown, gray, green, tan

Texture: ribbed

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Shape:

Season: Summer, Fall, Winter

Alignment: integral

Walls: thick

Location: stem

Form: tapered swelling

Cells: monothalamous

Possible Range:

Not an occurrence map: this shows where this gall's hosts grow. In most cases the gall has not been documented throughout this area.

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Name	Type	Notes
Epiblema discretivanum	scientific
Eucosma discretivana	scientific

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Gall of Epiblema discretivana on a groundsel-tree twig (Baccharis halimifolia). 29 Oct 2026, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.

Biology and taxonomy of three gall forming species of Epiblema (Olethreutidae) - William E. Miller (1977)

License: CC-BY

License: Public Domain / CC0