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.©