Chilophaga virgati
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Chilophaga
Hosts: Panicum virgatum
Detachable: integral
Color: brown
Texture: leafy
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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.
A New Species of Gall Midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Infesting Switchgrass in the Northern Great Plains
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Infested tillers were conspicuously shorter than normal tillers due to severely shortened or completely un-elongated peduncles and internodes of the flag-leaf phytomers. Infested tillers were also easily identified by having panicles that did not fully emerge from the sheath of the flag leaf[.]
”- Arvid Boe, Raymond J. Gagne: (2010) A New Species of Gall Midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Infesting Switchgrass in the Northern Great Plains©
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