Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Gall in Genista

Posted by Isidro on 04-01-2008 01:37
#1

Gall in Genista scorpius. La Pe?a, Huesca, Arag?n, Spain. Pyrenees about 1000 meters. The gall sizes about 4-5 mm.

What kind of insect (or mite) can produce it?

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Thanks.

Posted by Filex on 24-01-2008 01:12
#2

According to the book "Les galles de France" de Dauphin & Aniotsbehere, I think this could be the gall of Dasineura scorpii, a cecidomid that creates spherical woody galls at the end of the shots or in the axila of the leaves in Genista scorpius.

Miquel

Posted by Filex on 24-01-2008 01:14
#3

I wanted to say wooly, not woody of course.