Contarinia nasturtii

Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Contarinia
Detachable: integral
Color: green, purple
Texture: hairless
Abundance:
Shape:
Season: Summer
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: flower, stem
Form: abrupt swelling
Cells:
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Swede midge
Synonymy:
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image of Contarinia nasturtii
image of Contarinia nasturtii
image of Contarinia nasturtii

Plant Parasites of Europe

Gall

This species makes both flower galls [and] causes a swelling and shortening of the shoot (lower picture). The larvae are gregarious, lemon yellow when fully developed, and have several generations per year; they can jump. Pupation in the ground in a silken cocoon.

- Willem N. Ellis: (2021) Plant Parasites of Europe©

Reference: https://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/animalia/arthropoda/insecta/diptera/nematocera/cecidomyiidae/cecidomyiinae/cecidomyiidi/cecidomyiini/contarinia/contarinia-nasturtii/


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