Dasineura l-involucrata-roll-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Dasineura
Detachable: integral
Color: pink, red
Texture: hairy
Abundance:
Shape:
Season: Spring, Summer
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:

Plant Galls of the Western United States

Dasineura sp.
Roll-gall midge
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This midge induces monothalamous roll galls encompassing terminal leaves of twinberry. Galls are thick, dense, fleshy and ... [m]ost ... are rosy red ... The surface of the galls is covered with short, white, bristly hairs ...

- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©


Further Information:
Author(s)
Year
Title
License
Gallformers Contributors
2024
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

See Also:
Unless noted otherwise in the ID Notes, observations of this gall are collected in the Observation Field Gallformers Code with value l-involucrata-roll-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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