Astictoneura muhlenbergiae
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Astictoneura
Hosts: Muhlenbergia mexicana
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: leafy
Abundance:
Shape: rosette
Season: Spring, Summer
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: bud, upper leaf, leaf midrib, stem
Form:
Cells: free-rolling
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Asteromyia muhlenbergiae
Baldratia muhlenbergiae
Lasioptera carbonitens
Lasioptera muhlenbergiae
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 tribal and generic revision of the Nearctic Lasiopteridi (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)
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The larva ... forms galls on Muhlenbergia. The gall, figured in Felt 1918: 225, is composed of imbricated leaves and the larvae lie singly or several together at the bases of the leaves forming the gall.
”- Raymond J. Gagné: (1969) A tribal and generic revision of the Nearctic Lasiopteridi (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)©
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