Dasineura pellex
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Dasineura
Hosts: Fraxinus americana / Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, pink, red, yellow, green, black
Texture: succulent
Abundance: common
Shape: globular
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: upper leaf, on leaf veins
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Common Name(s): Ash Bullet Gall Midge
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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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Globular or bullet-shaped swelling on upperside of leaflets along veins, opening on lower surface of the leaflet ... Dasineura pellex (Osten Sacken)
Galls may be green, purple, or black. The white larvae drop to the soil in about the second week of June in Maryland and overwinter there. Adults have not been reared. ...Host: Fraxinus sp. Distr.: throughout eastern North America.
”- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©
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