Asphondylia imbricata (summer and autumn generation)

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Detachable: integral
Color: green, purple
Texture: leafy
Abundance: frequent
Shape: conical
Season: Summer, Fall
Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: bud
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Cells: monothalamous
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The Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Cecidomyiinae) From Allegheny County Pennsylvania

Asphondylia imbricata Plakidas is a multivoltine species. Summer galls occur in the apical meristems of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum ... These galls are green, conical and composed of imbricated leaflets. One larva develops per gall.

- JD Plakidas: (2016) The Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Cecidomyiinae) From Allegheny County Pennsylvania©


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