Rhopalomyia b-sarothroides-teardrop-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Rhopalomyia
Hosts: Baccharis sarothroides
Detachable:
Color: pink, red, yellow, purple
Texture: bumpy
Abundance:
Shape: conical, globular
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment: leaning
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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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.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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Rhopalomyia sp. A
Teardrop-gall midge
[Plate 419; Page 248]
This midge induces round, pointed, monothalamous leaf galls in spring on desert broom [Baccharis sarothroides].
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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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 b-sarothroides-teardrop-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
