Family Eriophyidae - Gall mites

Classification · Other Common Names · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Finger galls on American Plum - Eriophyes

Leaf galls on Trembling Aspen - Phyllocoptes didelphis

Willow leaf spatter galls, upper side - Aculus

Maple Bladdergall Mite? - Vasates quadripedes

finger galls on Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) - Eriophyes emarginatae

Eriophyid, ventral - Eriophyes prunidemissae - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Subclass Acari (Mites and Ticks)

Superorder Acariformes

Order Trombidiformes

Suborder Prostigmata (Prostigs)

Infraorder Eleutherengona

No Taxon (Raphignathina)

Superfamily Eriophyoidea

Family Eriophyidae (Gall mites)

Other Common Names

Rust mites

Remarks

Have been associated with 158 galls on 38 different plant families but mostly found on willow, beech, rose, and maple.(1)

Galls are relatively simple structures with hairy growths known as erineums. They originate in the buds.(1)

Print References

(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)

Internet References

USDA. Eriophyoidea

Acari Project (list of accepted names)

Wikipedia

Works Cited

1.	Plant Galls and Gall Makers Ephraim Porter Felt. 1940. Comstock Publishing Company, Inc., Ithaca NY.

2.	An Illustrated Guide to Plant Abnormalities Caused by Eriophyid Mites in North America (Agriculture Handbook Number 573) Keifer, Hartford H., Edward W. Baker, Tokuwo Kono, Mercedes Delfinado, and William E. Styer. 1982. USDA Agricultural Research Service.

3.	Eriophyid Studies H. H. Keifer. 1938. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, State of California, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 181-206.

4.	Catalogue of Eriophyid Mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) R. Davis, C. H. W. Flechtmann, J. H. Boezek, and H. E. Barké. 1982. Warsaw Agricultural University Press.

5.	Eriophyoid Mites of the United States E. W. Baker, T. Kono, J. W. Amrine, Jr., M. D. Delfinado-Baker and T. A. Stasny. 1996. Indira Publishing House.

6.	Mites Injurious to Economic Plants L. R. Jeppson, H. H. Keifer, and E. W. Baker. 1975. University of California Press.

7.	The Eriophyid mites of California (Acarina: Eriophyidae) H. H. Keifer. 1952. Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 2(1): 1-124, pls. 1-39.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 1 January, 2007 - 7:17am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Theridula, ceiseman, Edward Ruden, Marci Hess
Last updated 13 October, 2023 - 12:29pm

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