Phylloxera floridana

Family: Phylloxeridae | Genus: Phylloxera
Detachable: integral
Color: yellow
Texture: pubescent, hairy
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Shape: conical, spangle/button
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Walls: slit
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
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missing image of Phylloxera floridana

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

Phylloxera floridana Hamilton, sp. n.

Hosts: Carya floridana

Galls: Round and slightly convex, yellow, and with or without central depression on adaxial leaf surface; somewhat conical and convex on abaxial leaf surface. Diameter 1.1–5.2 mm; below more convex with a protruding slit-like opening fringed with whitish pubescence.

Leaf gall: button [shape]

[A figure of the gall appears on page 140 of the pdf. A discussion of how to distinguish this gall from the similar P caryaefallax appears on page 93.]

Range: FL

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


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