Unknown r-trivialis-stem-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Unknown | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: integral
Color: red, purple
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Alignment: integral
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
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Field Guide to the Herb and Bramble Gall Wasps of North America

Southern dewberry stem gall

Host: Southern dewberry (Rubus trivialis).

Gall location: On the stem.

Description: Irregular stem swellings.

Range: Mississippi.

Not much is known about this gall, as it is known only from a single specimen. It may be induced by a midge rather than a gall wasp, but the inducer is not yet known

- Louis Nastasi, Charles Davis: (2022) Field Guide to the Herb and Bramble Gall Wasps of North America©


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