Lasioptera t-laxa-lily-stem-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Lasioptera
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: hairless
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Season: Spring
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling, abrupt swelling
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

Swollen stem ... Lasioptera sp.

Adults emerged in spring from galls collected the previous fall. Host: Brodiaea sp. Distr.: California.

- Raymond J. Gagne: (1989) The plant-feeding gall midges of North America©


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