Phylloxera williamsi

Family: Phylloxeridae | Genus: Phylloxera
Detachable: integral
Color: yellow, green
Texture: pubescent, hairy
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Summer, Spring
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls: slit
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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Species Diversity of Hickory-feeding Phylloxerans (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae) in the U.S.

Phylloxera williamsi Hamilton, sp. n.

Hosts: Carya cordiformis

Galls: Oval and convex, yellowish-green, and with long white pubescence on both sides of leaf; slightly more convex above than below. Diameter 2.2 mm; below pubescent and with a protruding slit-like opening fringed with white pubescence.

[type specimen collected in May]

[A figure of the gall appears on page 154 of the pdf. A discussion of how to distinguish this gall from the similar P floridana appears on page 112.]

Range: WV

- Fredericka Blair Hamilton: (2019) Species Diversity of Hickory-feeding Phylloxerans (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae) in the U.S.©


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