Asphondylia a-salsola-woolly-bud-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Hosts: Ambrosia salsola
Detachable: integral
Color: white
Texture: woolly
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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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[on Hymenoclea [≤ Ambrosia per POWO 2023]:]
White-woolly terminal bud gall ... Asphondylia sp. and cecidomyiid
Asphondylia sp. Galls are monothalamous. Adults emerged from the galls in May. Host: H. salsola.
Cecidomiid. Felt (1940) referred to this species as Rhopalomyia hymenocleae, but the species was never formally described and the name is not available....This species is possibly responsible for a different woolly bud gall. Host: H. salsola.
”- 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 a-salsola-woolly-bud-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
