Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowseInfoImagesLinksBooksData
Photo#188484
galls on a wild grape leaf - Heliozela aesella

galls on a wild grape leaf - Heliozela aesella
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
June 5, 2008

Images of this individual: tag all
galls on a wild grape leaf - Heliozela aesella galls on a wild grape leaf - Heliozela aesella

Moved
Moved from Gall Midges.
Whoops... I should have said, there was a larva inside... I hadn't looked at it under magnification. Turns out this is a moth gall rather than a midge gall.

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Galls.
I found a bunch of these today and opened one; there was in fact a midge larva inside.

Moved
Moved from Miscellaneous Grape Midge Galls.
Well, based on this paper, the grape-feeding midges I mentioned below are now placed in the genus Vitisiella, but these don't look quite like any galls I've seen illustrated or described, so I'm moving them back to 'unidentified galls' for now, even though I still think they most likely are midge galls.

Moved

Moved
Moved from Gall Midges.

Moved
Moved from galls.

Midge galls
This book attributes "irregular, succulent swellings on various plants parts" of grape to "Dasineura spp., Janetiella spp., and miscellaneous cecidomyiids . . . the species responsible for the entire suite of these galls on grape form a monophyletic group. A separate genus will eventually be erected for them. It is now very difficult to associate any of the described species with particular galls. More than one species has been reared from one kind of gall."

I believe
that it may be Grape Phylloxera. Interesting that it only occurs on the larger leaf veins
I did some more research and I also wonder about Gouty Vein gall Midge: Continaria negundinis

 
Neither of those, I think
I'm familiar with grape phylloxera galls, and those would be open/concave above... Contarinia negundinis is specific to boxelder, but maybe it's some related midge.

Comment viewing options
Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.