Neolasioptera s-lanceolatum-tapered-stem-swelling
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Neolasioptera
Hosts: Symphyotrichum lanceolatum
Detachable: integral
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Shape: spindle
Season: Fall
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Alignment: integral
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
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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.
The plant-feeding gall midges of North America
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[under a listing for Neolasioptera spp. stem galls on Aster spp. (in the former, very wide sense):]
Such galls have been found from New England and Ontario to North Carolina and Missouri on many more asters than listed for the three species below.
N. albitarsis (Felt). Host: A. cordifolius. Dist.: New York.
N. punicei (Brodie). Host: A. puniceus. Dist.: Ontario.
N. ramuscula (BeutenmĂźller). Host: A. dumosus, A. patens. Dist.: North Carolina.
- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North AmericaŠ
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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 s-lanceolatum-tapered-stem-swelling on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
