Rhopalomyia b-sarothroides-bud-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Rhopalomyia
Hosts: Baccharis sarothroides
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: hairy, hairless
Abundance:
Shape: conical, globular, cluster
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: bud
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. B
Bud-gall midge
[Plate 420; Page 248]
This gall midge species induces clustered, monothalamous terminal bud galls 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-bud-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
