Rhopalomyia audibertiae
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Rhopalomyia
Detachable: integral
Color: gray, red, green, purple
Texture: hairy
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Shape: conical, hemispherical
Season: Spring
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Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, leaf midrib, between leaf veins
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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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Tubular outgrowth of leaf ... Rhopalomyia spp.
Sages in western North America evidently support many kinds of galls formed by Rhopalomyia spp., and several kinds are represented in the USNM. Galls are monothalamous even though they may form close aggregates... Two species of gall midges have been described from Salvia.
R. audibertiae Felt. Galls are conical, narrowing from base, and the same color as the leaf... Host: S. apiana. Distr.: Baja California and Mexico.
R. salviae Felt. Galls are cylindrical and reddish... Host: S. "californica" [S. apiana] Distr.: California
”- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©
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