Unknown b-halimifolia-spot-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asteromyia
Hosts: Baccharis halimifolia
Detachable: integral
Color: green, purple
Texture: hairless
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Season: Summer
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form: leaf spot
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Image by Ken Kneidel © Public Domain / CC0Our 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.
A Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Asteromyia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)
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Following are species on which I have collected galls, presumably of Asteromyia, but from which no larvae, pupae, or adults were available for study....
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Baccharis halimifolia L.—Md., Fla.
B. bigelovii Gray—Ariz.
B. douglasii DC.—Calif.
- Raymond J. Gagné: (1968) A Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Asteromyia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)©
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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-halimifolia-spot-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
