Rhopalomyia strobiligemma

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Rhopalomyia
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: leafy
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Shape: rosette
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Alignment: integral
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Location: bud, stem
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

Catkinlike growth, a foreshortened stem, with narrow leaf tips along length of gall...Rhopalomyia strobiligemma (Stebbins)

Galls are polythalamous. Adults have emerged from the galls in September. Host: A. paniculatus [syn. of Symphyotrichum undulatum according to POWO, but may more likely refer to S. lanceolatum here; Gagné uses "Aster undulatus" elsewhere in this book]

- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©


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