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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Phylloxeroidea » Phylloxeridae
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Small dead thing
Copyright © 2012 Charley Eiseman

Small dead thing
Squam Swamp, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts, USA
Size: 0.4 mm
On 9/7/2011, I collected a scrub oak leaf with some Polystepha pilulae galls on it; on 10/10/11 I noticed this little dead thing in the bag.

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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 26 April, 2012 - 9:48pm
Last updated 27 April, 2012 - 10:30am

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Thanks everybody! I don't know for sure that oak was the host plant, since there was just this one specimen, but I don't think there were many (any?) conifers nearby.
… Charley Eiseman, 27 April, 2012 - 10:30am login or register to post comments

They're very similar.
The main differences between Adelgidae and Phylloxeridae are the antennae, how the wings are held at rest, and host plants. In the winged forms of Adelgidae the antennae are five segmented, the wings are held roof-like over the body at rest, and that family only feeds on conifers. All stages of Phylloxeridae only have three antennal segments, the wings are held flat over the body at rest, and they do not feed on conifers but a variety of other plants.

So I second Phylloxeridae :)
… Natalie Hernandez, 27 April, 2012 - 10:12am login or register to post comments

Phylloxeridae…
Looks more like Phylloxera to me. They are also gall formers.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 26 April, 2012 - 10:10pm login or register to post comments

Has kind of an adelgid vibe...


But that's just a shot in the dark. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 26 April, 2012 - 9:56pm login or register to post comments

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