Neolasioptera angelicae
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Neolasioptera
Hosts: Angelica venenosa
Detachable: integral
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Alignment: integral
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Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
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Synonymy: Pending...
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.
ON SOME APPARENTLY NEW CECIDOMYIIDAE
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Gall. -- Elongate swellings of the stalk of the pubescent angelica (Angelica villosa [now venenosa]). Each gall contains numerous larvae, which are in a large chamber filled with pith of the plant. Sometimes as many as four swellings are on a single stalk. Length, 25 to 55 mm.; width, 8 to 14 mm. The larvae hibernate in the gall.
”- BEUTENMULLER, WILLIAM. "On some apparently new Cecidomyiidae." The Canadian Entomologist 40.2 (1908): 73-75.: (1908) ON SOME APPARENTLY NEW CECIDOMYIIDAE©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88726#page/88/mode/1up
Further Information:
Pending...
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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 angelicae on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
