Asteromyia x-tortifolia-asteromyia-like-blister
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asteromyia
Hosts: Xylorhiza tortifolia
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Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.
A Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Asteromyia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)
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Following are species on which I have collected galls, presumably of Asteromyia, but from which no larvae, pupae, or adults were available for study....
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Aster abatus Blake—Calif.
[This could also represent an extension of a known Asteromyia species' host-range to the genus Xylorhiza. This page is provided provisionally in case the gall-former on Xylorhiza is an undescribed species.]
”- Raymond J. Gagné: (1968) A Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Asteromyia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)©
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Unless noted otherwise in the ID Notes, observations of this gall are collected in the Observation Field Gallformers Code with value x-tortifolia-asteromyia-like-blister on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
