Asphondylia pseudorosa (capitulum)

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Asphondylia
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, yellow, green
Texture: stiff, hairless, resinous dots, leafy, succulent, ribbed
Abundance: common
Shape: globular
Season: Fall
Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: bud, flower
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
missing image of Asphondylia pseudorosa (capitulum)

The plant-feeding gall midges of North America

Aborted flower bud... Asphondylia sp.
A central cell within the bud encloses the larva or pupa. Host: E. graminifolia.

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


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