Phylloxera crypta

Family: Phylloxeridae | Genus: Phylloxera
Detachable: integral
Color: green
Texture: pubescent, hairy
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Alignment: integral
Walls: ostiole
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
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missing image of Phylloxera crypta

Species Diversity of Hickory-feeding Phylloxerans (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae) in the U.S.

Phylloxera crypta Hamilton, sp. n.

Hosts: Carya aquatica

Galls: Round, slightly convex, and concolorous to surrounding leaf tissue on both surfaces of leaf with a slight depression in center above; diameter 3.5–4.6 mm. Below opening a green stem or thorn-like projection.

[A figure of the gall appears on page 131 of the pdf. A discussion of how to distinguish this gall from the similar P deplanata appears on page 81.]

Range: SC

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


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