Acalitus phoradendronis

Family: Eriophyidae | Genus: Acalitus
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: hairy, erineum
Abundance:
Shape:
Season: Spring, Summer
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form: leaf blister
Cells: not applicable
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:

Amrine Catalog

Acalitus phoradendronis

Hosts: Phoradenderon villosum var villosum

Relationship: The mites make partial galls on lower leaf surfaces consisting of irregular channels surrounding a raised center. These deformities give the mites a sequestered location in which to live.

Range: CA

- James Amrine: (2019) Amrine Catalog©


Further Information:
Author(s)
Year
Title
License
James Amrine
2019
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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