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The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America
By Raymond J. Gagné
Cornell University Press, 1989
ISBN: 0-8014-1918-2
Cite: 214632 with citation markup [cite:214632]
If you've gotten as far as figuring out that your gall was made by a midge (Cecidomyiidae), you should be able to figure out the species from this book's illustrations and keys.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 16 August, 2008 - 12:36pm
Last updated 12 October, 2013 - 7:33am

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