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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Acariformes » Trombidiformes » Prostigs (Prostigmata) » Eleutherengona » Raphignathina » Eriophyoidea » Gall mites (Eriophyidae) » Aculops » Aculops euphorbicolus
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Eriophyidae, gall mites on Flowering Spurge - Aculops euphorbicolus
Copyright © 2015 MJ Hatfield

Eriophyidae, gall mites on Flowering Spurge - Aculops euphorbicolus
Red Oak Prairie, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
July 18, 2015
July 16, 2015:, collected flower(?) galls on Flowering Spurge, Euphorbia corollata, and a moth larva with light weaving
These spurge galls are not the same as
Later: I could see that there was nothing in the rearing jar so put off looking closely
October 8, 2015: since I could see no evidence of the lep larva or anything else, I was set to throw it all out. But decided to take the time to look under the scope. Golly, found 4 (small) dead gall flies and a couple spent puparia
September 12, 2016: Dr. Gagné ID’d as mite galls and gall fly as an Arthrocnodax, a predator of mites.

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Eriophyidae, gall mites on Flowering Spurge - Aculops euphorbicolus Eriophyidae, gall mites on Flowering Spurge - Aculops euphorbicolus Cecidomyiidae - Arthrocnodax Cecidomyiidae, spent puparium - Arthrocnodax Cecidomyiidae - Arthrocnodax
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 14 October, 2015 - 5:22am
Last updated 5 August, 2022 - 9:51am

Moved
Moved from Eriophyoidea.
… Edward L. Ruden, 26 November, 2021 - 3:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Edward and Yann.
… MJ Hatfield, 26 November, 2021 - 5:11pm login or register to post comments

Aculops euphorbicolus
Aculops euphorbicolus
… Yann Kemper, 17 August, 2021 - 7:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Yann,
Thank you so much.
Since there isn't a page for this species, would you give some more information/citations for this species to be included in the page?
Thanks.
… MJ Hatfield, 17 August, 2021 - 9:09pm login or register to post comments

 
Amrine Catalog of Eriophyid mites description:
"Flower deformation, galls." Host is Euphorbia curtisii, and here are iNaturalist observations of this species: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=1109549
… Yann Kemper, 18 August, 2021 - 1:52am login or register to post comments

 
.
Thank you.
… MJ Hatfield, 18 August, 2021 - 8:19am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from unidentified midge galls and immature stages.
… MJ Hatfield, 16 September, 2016 - 2:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Gall Midges and Wood Midges.
… John F. Carr, 1 May, 2016 - 4:27pm login or register to post comments

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