Phylloxera glabra

Family: Phylloxeridae | Genus: Phylloxera
Detachable: integral
Color: yellow
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Season: Spring
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Alignment: integral
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Location: leaf midrib, on leaf veins
Form: leaf curl, leaf spot
Cells: not applicable
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Phylloxera punctata

Aphids on the world's plants

Phylloxera glabra (von Heyden)

Living without host alternation mainly on Quercus robur. Fundatrices feed in spring from main veins, sometimes causing inward curling of leaf-edge as in Ph. confusa. Subsequent generations include yellowish orange apterae (BL 0.7-0.85 mm), which lay circular clusters of eggs on the underside of the leaf, and both apterous and (later) alate sexuparae (Grassi 1912). Feeding causes necrotic spots on leaves. In Europe (England, France, Germany, Italy), and introduced to New Zealand, where it is recorded from Q. dentata (Sunde 1984). A record from Turkey (Şenol et al. 2014c) requires additional confirmation. Anholocyclic overwintering may occur; Lubiarz (2007) observed overwintering of immature stages of P. glabra (and/or P. coccinea) in bark crevices in Poland.

- Roger Blackman, Victor Eastop: (2013) Aphids on the world's plants©

Reference: http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info/d_APHIDS_P.htm#Phylloxera


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