Rhopalomyia s-altissima-cone-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Rhopalomyia
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, yellow
Texture: hairy
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Shape: conical
Season: Fall
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Location: flower
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Gallformers ID Notes

Narrowly conical galls on the flowering branches of a Solidago species in the triple-veined group, probably S. altissima. The galls occur among (and arise within?) capitula, and are somewhat pubescent. Tentatively assigned to Rhopalomyia based on overall resemblance to R. anthophila. Observed in Ohio in October.

Possibly the same thing as the galls in Figure 218c in Gagné (1989), although not a perfect match. He tentatively assigned these to Rhopalomyia as well. He identified the host plant as "S. canadensis", but used the wide sense of S. canadensis throughout his book, which includes S. altissima.

Alternatively, these may represent the "real" Rhopalomyia racemicola galls of Felt, rather than the late-season galls on Solidago fistulosa currently (tentatively) assigned to that species by Dorchin et al. (2009), and Gagné (1989).

These iNaturalist observations cannot be annotated with a gallformers code, but presumably belong here as well:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98224590
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98228838

- Gallformers Contributors: (2023) Gallformers ID Notes©


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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-altissima-cone-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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