Dasineura tumidosae

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Dasineura
Detachable: integral
Color: red, green, black, purple
Texture: succulent
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Shape: globular
Season: Spring, Summer
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Alignment:
Walls: thick
Location: petiole, leaf midrib
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Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Ash Petiole Gall Midge
Synonymy:

The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

D. tumidosae. Larvae are gregarious, white, and drop to the ground when full-grown, around the first week of June in Maryland. Leaflet swellings are barely noticeable from the top of the leaflet but are large and pendant below. Galls are sometimes reddish ... Hosts: Fraxinus spp. ...

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


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