Phylloxera flavoconica

Family: Phylloxeridae | Genus: Phylloxera
Detachable: integral
Color: yellow, green
Texture: pubescent, hairy, hairless
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Shape: conical
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Walls: slit
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
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Species Diversity of Hickory-feeding Phylloxerans (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae) in the U.S.

Phylloxera flavoconica Hamilton, sp. n.

Hosts: Carya ovata, tomentosa

Galls: Conical and yellow, glabrous, and more prominent on adaxial leaf surface; on abaxial leaf surface slightly convex and light yellowish-green. Diameter 1.1–5.0 mm; light yellowish-green and with a pubescent slit-like opening below.

Leaf gall: conical

[A figure of the gall appears on page 138 of the pdf. A discussion of how to distinguish this gall from the similar P caryaefallax appears on page 91.]

Range: TN, GA

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


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