...a small bud-like gall was found on Bigelovia graveolens. It was quite abundant a few miles to the east of Gallo Spring, N. Mex...
Gall.—Length, 5 to 8½ mm.; greatest basal width, 4 to 7 mm. Small, bud-like, borne on sides of stems, to which the gall is attached by a very constricted base almost without length; formed of loosely overlapping stipules much like the cabbage gall on willow but not conical or compact. Greenish in color, or slightly yellowish, scantily covered with a fine white pubescence. Stipules forming the gall rather broad at base, pointed at end or sometimes rounded, from 12 to 20 in number, but not more than 8 or 10 showing on the outside, the tips of the rest joined and forming the terminal central tip of the gall. Inside the innermost of these, in a little slightly hardened cell, a single larva or pupa is found. Stipules with the woolly pubescence on the outer convex surface and on the edges, nearly or quite bare on the inner concave surface. The central pupal cell is thinly lined with the white woolly pubescence, and is about 3 mm. long by 1.6 mm. wide...

[Asphondylia] bigeloviaebrassicoides. USA (New Mexico). Chrysothamnus graveolens (Asteraceae).
Cecidomyia bigeloviaebrassicoides (as bigeloviae-brassicoides) Townsend 1893b: 491. USA: New Mexico, a few mi. E Gallo Spring; ST; G; lost.

...bud gall...gall covered exteriorly by overlapping leaves joined together at gall apex...A. bigeloviaebrassicoides (Townsend). This gall seems to fit the original description of this species, but is only tentatively placed under this name. The species was described only from galls that are now lost. Galls in the USNM fit the description and contain Asphondylia pupae in a central cell. Townsend's original description pointed out that the larval cell was covered with white tomentum, probably a reference to the fungal associate typical of Asphondylia galls. Host: Chrysothamnus sp. Distr.: New Mexico