Lasioptera d-ambrosioides-stem-swelling

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Lasioptera
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America
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Chenopodium (goosefoot)

Stem swelling...?Lasioptera sp.

This gall is reportedly 1–2 cm long. It is known only from the record in Felt (1940). Host: C. ambrosioides. Distr.: unspecified.

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


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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 d-ambrosioides-stem-swelling on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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