Neolasioptera tillandsia-root-nodule
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Neolasioptera
Hosts: Tillandsia spp
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Location: underground (roots+)
Form: abrupt 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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Tillandsia
Root nodule...Neolasioptera n. sp.
Nodules resemble those on rootlets of poison ivy (147)... Hosts: Tillandsia spp. ...
[refers only to specimens from sites south of USA and/or intercepted at USA customs, but included here for completeness as some Tillandsia species do occur spontaneously in USA]
”- 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 tillandsia-root-nodule on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
