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This is a list of insect galls arranged into families. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2023) Coleoptera Beetles.
Galls induced by insects can be viewed as an extended phenotype of the inducing insect, and gall-inducing insects specialize on their host plants, often to a greater extent than insects that feed on the same plant without creating galls. [2] The gall's form or type depends on what organism is attacking the plant and where the plant is being ...
Cylindrococcus is a genus of scale insects that induces galls on plants of the genus Allocasuarina. There are two described species of Cylindrococcus, both of which occur only in Australia. [1] The galls of adult females (10–30 mm long) look somewhat similar to the cone-like "fruit" of the host plant and might be mistaken for such.
Gall-inducing insects are usually species-specific and sometimes tissue-specific on the plants they gall. Gall-inducing insects include gall wasps, gall midges, gall flies, leaf-miner flies, aphids, scale insects, psyllids, thrips, gall moths, and weevils. [36] Many gall insects remain to be described. Estimates range up to more than 210,000 ...
There are two types of first instar nymphs within galls: one type of nymph is thick-legged and attacks insects introduced into galls. Another type of nymph is normal-legged. [ 10 ] Monomorphic first-instar nymphs of Pemphigus dorocola attack moth larvae, a predator , when it is experimentally introduced to the gall. [ 11 ]
In the winter time galls of D. mayri are often opened by predators just as are the galls of D. rosae.These predators may be birds as in the case of other Cynipidae galls: for D. rosae the lesser spotted woodpecker (Picoides minor), [2] for Andricus spp. and Neuroterus spp. the great tit (Parus major).
Rhopalomyia solidaginis, the goldenrod bunch gall, is a species of gall midges, insects in the family Cecidomyiidae. The galls of this species have the following host species of goldenrods: Solidago altissima , Solidago canadensis , and Solidago rugosa .
The induced galls are shared with a community of insects including transient occupants, opportunistic foragers, parasitoids, inquilines, and parasitoids of inquilines. [2] These galls are divided into microscale niches allowing for the coexistence of ecologically similar species that exploit similar feeding strategies.