Contarinia a-incarnata-rolled-leaf-or-swollen-midrib-fold
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Contarinia
Hosts: Asclepias incarnata
Detachable: integral
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Texture: bumpy
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Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, leaf midrib
Form: leaf blister
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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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rolled leaf or swollen midrib fold...Contarinia sp.
The damage was described as a swollen midrib fold in Felt (1940) but as a rolled leaf in his unpublished notebook. Larvae were taken in July and adults reared in August... A lestodiplosis was also reared from the damaged leaves.
”- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©
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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 a-incarnata-rolled-leaf-or-swollen-midrib-fold on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
