Plant Parasites of Europe

leafminers, galls and fungi

Picea sitchensis

Alternative names

English vernacular name

  • Sitka spruce

Dutch vernacular name

  • sitkaspar

Synonym

  • Picea falcata
  • Picea menziesi
  • Picea menziesii

Determination table

organ mode stage main group group family parasite P G S
leaf budgallInsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAdelgidaeAdelges lapponicus16
leaf budgallspring gen.InsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAdelgidaeAdelges laricis 215
leaf budgallInsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAdelgidaeAdelges tardus 14
leafhiddenInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaeAphelia paleana2324
leaf budgallspring gen.InsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAdelgidaeAphrastasia pectinatae219
leaffreeInsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaeAulacorthum circumflexum 5557
leaffreeInsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaeAulacorthum solani 130158
leafhiddenInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaeCelypha lacunana 3737
leafpustuleteliaFungiBasidiomycotaColeosporiaceaeChrysomyxa abietis15
leafpustuleaeciaFungiBasidiomycotaColeosporiaceaeChrysomyxa ledi29
leafpustuleaeciaFungiBasidiomycotaColeosporiaceaeChrysomyxa rhododendri 323
stemfreeInsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaeCinara costata19
stemfreeInsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaeCinara piceae 17
stemfreeInsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaeCinara piceicola 16
stemfreeInsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaeCinara pilicornis 310
stemfreeInsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaeCinara pruinosa 16
leafhiddenInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaeClepsis spectrana5256
stemcankerFungiAscomycotaNectriaceaeCorinectria fuckeliana23
stemborerInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaeCydia coniferana411
stemborerInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaeCydia indivisa34
stemminerInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaeCydia pactolana 24
stemborerInsectaColeopteraCurculionidaeDendroctonus micans28
stemfreeInsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaeElatobium abietinum 519
stemsaprotrophicFungiAscomycotaHelminthosphaeriaceaeEndophragmiella resinae11
leafminerInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaeEpinotia nanana 26
leafminerInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaeEpinotia pygmaeana23
flowerborerInsectaLepidopteraGeometridaeEupithecia abietaria36
leaf budgallFungiAscomycotaCucurbitariaceaeGemmamyces piceae28
leaf budgallspring gen.InsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaeGilletteella cooleyi 29
leafleaf spotFungiAscomycotaRhytismataceaeLophodermium piceae34
flowerborerInsectaHymenopteraTorymidaeMegastigmus atedius26
dead woodsaprotrophicFungiAscomycotaMicraspidiaceaeMicraspis tetraspora11
leaffreeInsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaeMindarus obliquus16
leafleaf spotFungiAscomycotaPleosporales incertae sedisMycocentrospora acerina3843
leaffreeAcariEriophyoideaPhytoptidaeNalepella haarlovi11
leaffreeAcariTetranychoideaTetranychidaeOligonychus ununguis 1829
rootfreesummer gen.InsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaePachypappa tremulae27
rootfreesummer gen.InsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaePachypappa vesicalis47
rootfreesummer gen.InsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaePachypappella lactea23
leafhiddenInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaePandemis cinnamomeana1212
leafhiddenInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaePhiledone gerningana1313
leafhiddenInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaePhiledonides lunana2729
stemscaleInsectaHemiptera CoccoideaCoccidaePhysokermes inopinatus24
leaffreeInsectaHymenopteraTenthredinidaePristiphora abietina15
leaffreeInsectaHymenopteraTenthredinidaePristiphora amphibola12
rootfreesummer gen.InsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAphididaeProciphilus xylostei 512
stemsaprotrophicFungiAscomycotaPhacidiaceaePseudophacidium piceae12
flowerInsectaDipteraCecidomyiidaeResseliella conicola23
stemborerInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaeRhyacionia logaea22
leaf budgallInsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAdelgidaeSacchiphantes abietis 112
leaf budgallspring gen.InsectaHemiptera SternorrhynchaAdelgidaeSacchiphantes viridis 215
leafminerInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaeSpilonota laricana 23
leaffreeInsectaLepidopteraGeometridaeThera britannica56
stemsaprotrophicFungiAscomycotaRhytismataceaeTryblidiopsis pinastri314
leaf budborerInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaeZeiraphera griseana47
leaf budborerInsectaLepidopteraTortricidaeZeiraphera ratzeburgiana 37

Organ

the part of the plant that most conspicuously is hit by the parasite

bud: both flower buds and leaf buds
flower: also inflorescence
leaf: also needle, phyllodium, petiole
leaf bud: also unfolding young leaf
root: also root stock, runners
root collar: also the lowest part of the stem
stem: also culm, the lower part of the peduncle, in grasses also leaf sheath
systemic: the entire above-ground plant

PARASITIC MODE

borer: larva living internally, almost no outwards signs
canker: restricted area of dead plant tissue
down: 0.5-2 mm high fungal down
film: very thin cover of fungal tissue
free: free-living, vagrant
gall: swelling and/or malformation
hidden: concealed by dense webbing, leaf folds etc.
leaf spot: discoloured, often ± necrotic, generally not galled, sign of a fungus infection
miner > borer: larve initially makes a mine, lives as a borer later
pustule: plug of fungal tissue, generally brown-black and < 2 mm
saprotrophic: developing on recently dead, still identifiable, plant tissue
scale: scale insect
stripe: longitudinal line of fungal tissue in a grass leaf

COLUMNS

P: with image
G: number of genera on this website
S: number of species on this website

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IMPORTANT

The host plant spectre of a parasite is rarely known exhaustively; this applies in particular at the species level. It is advisable therefore to check at least also the list of all parasites of this genus.

 

Last modified 9.vii.2026