Tamalia coweni

Family: Aphididae | Genus: Tamalia
Detachable: integral
Color: pink, red, green
Texture: hairless
Abundance: common
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Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, leaf midrib, between leaf veins, flower, leaf edge
Form: leaf curl, leaf edge fold
Cells:
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Fold Gall Aphid, Manzanita Leaf Gall Aphid
Synonymy:
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Plant Galls of the Western United States

Fold-Gall Aphid (Tamalia coweni)

This aphid induces two kinds of galls: one, a common and widespread fold gall along the margins or midribs of leaves, occurring on many species of glabrous-leaved manzanitas; and the second, an uncommon convoluted swelling or baglike structure on the inflorescences of manzanitas.

[UPDATE: Please read Gallformers ID Notes above for a 2023 taxon split that narrows the host list for this gall.]

- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©


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