Contarinia q-chrysolepis-leaf-edge-roll

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Contarinia
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Form: leaf edge roll
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Plant Galls of the Western United States

Roll-Gall Midge
Contarinia sp.

... induces narrow polythalamous roll galls on the underside of leaves of both canyon live and huckleberry oaks ...

[See pg. 148, Plate 211].

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


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