Acalitus capparidis

Family: Eriophyidae | Genus: Acalitus
Detachable: integral
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Texture: erineum
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Location: upper leaf, lower leaf
Form: leaf blister
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Plant mites (Acari) of the French Antilles. 4. Eriophyidae (Prostigmata)
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Acalitus capparidis Flechtmann, sp. nov.

RELATION TO HOST: Acalitus capparidis induces the plant to produce crinkle galls on the lower leaf surface, opening through a small pit on the upper surface.

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- Carlos Flechtmann, Serge Kreiter, J. Etienne, Gilberto José de Moraes: (1999) Plant mites (Acari) of the French Antilles. 4. Eriophyidae (Prostigmata)©


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Carlos Flechtmann, Serge Kreiter, J. Etienne, Gilberto José de Moraes
1999
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
James Amrine
2019
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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