Unknown s-ericoides-fuzzy-tube-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown
Texture: hairy
Abundance:
Shape: conical
Season:
Related:
Alignment:
Walls: false chamber
Location: bud
Form:
Cells:
Possible Range:i
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Gallformers ID Notes

Hairy, tube-shaped galls on the buds of Symphyotrichum ericoides. Galls are covered with stiff, white hairs. The galls have a false chamber internally.

Observed in Texas in August.

- Gallformers Contributors: (2023) Gallformers ID Notes©


Further Information:
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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 s-ericoides-fuzzy-tube-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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