Asphondylia p-baccharis-seed-head-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

Pluchea

Larva in seed heads...Asphondylia sp.

This species is known only from a series of specimens in the USNM, with no further description of the gall they caused...Host: P. rosea. Distr.: Florida

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


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