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LNHS Sheet number 126

[Host Plant] Daucus carota; [Gall description, Hollins & Plant] Fruit swollen, brown and spherical with orange/brown hairs.[Additional Notes] Red larvae ; Kiefferia pericarpiicola (Bremi, 1847) is the true gall causer. Trotteria umbelliferarum Kieffer, 1902 is an inquiline in the gall. It has red larvae

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Daucus carota (Host plant), Kiefferia pericarpiicola (Animalia)
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