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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.
The meristems, where plant cell division occurs, are the usual sites of galls, though insect galls can be found on other parts of the plant, such as the leaves, stalks, branches, buds, roots, and even flowers and fruits. Gall-inducing insects are usually species-specific and sometimes tissue-specific on the plants they gall.
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.
Rhopalomyia is a genus of gall midges, insects in the family Cecidomyiidae. There are at least 267 described species in Rhopalomyia. [1] Most species in this genus induce galls on plants in the Asteraceae. [1] This genus has a cosmopolitan distribution. [1] Rhopalomyia was first established by Ewald Heinrich Rübsaamen in 1892. [1] Rhopalomyia ...
Galls are growth deformities induced in certain plants by various insects which are mostly species-specific. 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]
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. They have been found across eastern North America.
Gall's interior Witch Hazel Cone Galls. H. hamamelidis have three generations per year, each with a different part in the life cycle. At the start of spring, females or stem mothers crawl to witch-hazel leaf buds. As the leaf grows, the aphid injects it with a substance, possibly an enzyme or hormone, that
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).