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Additions, new illustrations, important corrections.
June, 2023
new pictures
Aylax minor; Contarinia florum; Gymnosporangium cf clavariiforme; Neuroterus albipes reflexus.
May, 2023
new pictures
Agromyza nigrescens; Claviceps purpurea; Dicladispa testacea; Lasioptera donacis; ? Ochropsora ariae; Oligotrophus gemmarum; Peronospora agrestis; Phyllonorycter ulicicolella; Puccinia antirrhini; Ramularia veronicae; Septoria protearum; Tetramesa romana; Tetraneura ulmi; Tuberculina sbrozzii.
April, 2023
new pictures
Asphondylia phlomidis, scrophulariae; Dasineura aparines; Lampronia capitella; Mordellistena spec.; Patchiella reaumuri; Puccinia coronata, sessilis
March, 2023
Norway’s gall midge fauna
In the period 2019-2022 a team of specialists and collectors has collected throughout Norway over 1500 samples of plant galls, from more than 350 plant species. Participants of the project were Hallvard Elven, Zoya Fedotova,and Simon Haarder, Ove Sørlibråten, Lars Ove Hansen, Trude Starholm, and Arne Fjellberg. 143 Cecidomyiidae species were identified in the material collected. About half of the samples could successfully by reared, enabling a study of the adults. Over 600 photos of the material have been made by Hallvard Elven and made available on the Internet:
Anisostephus betulinus; Aphidoletes aphidimyza; Arthrocnodax fraxinellus; Asphondylia hornigi, lathyri, sarothamni; Asynapta phragmitis; Clinodiplosis cilicrus; Contarinia anthobia, chrysanthemi, coryli, craccae, fagi, floriperda, gei, lonicerearum, loti, lysimachiae, petioli, polygonati, pruniflorum, quinquenotata, rhamni, solani, sorbi, tiliarum, tremulae, viburnorum; Cupressatia siskiyou; Cystiphora sanguinea; Dasineura acrophila, affinis, aucupariae, engstfeldi, epilobii, frangulae, fraxinea, fraxini, geranii, kiefferiana, leguminicola, miki, populeti, pustulans, rosae, saussureae, schulzei, serotina, similis, sisymbrii, thomasiana, tiliae, tortilis, traili, trifolii, ulmaria, urticae; Didymomyia tiliacea; Drisina glutinosa; Geocrypta galii; Giraudiella inclusa; Harmandiola cavernosa, globuli, tremulae; Iteomyia capreae, major; Jaapiella chelidonii, inflatae, inulicola, moraviae, schmidti, veronicae; Kiefferia pericarpiicola; Lasioptera carophila, rubi; Lathyromyza abruptis, florum, schlechtendali; Lestodiplosis tarsonemi; Macrodiplosis pustularis; Macrolabis achilleae, fagicola, lonicerae, luceti, pavida, vicicola; Massalongia rubra; Microlasioptera flexuosa; Mikiola fagi; Monarthropalpus flavus; Monodiplosis liebeli; Mycocecis ovalis; Oligotrophus juniperinus; Ozirhincus hungaricus, millefolii; Physemocecis ulmi; Placochela nigripes; Rabdophaga iteobia, marginemtorquens, rosaria, rosariella; Resseliella betulicola; Rhopalomyia foliorum; Rondaniola bursaria; Schizomyia galiorum; Semudobia betulae, skuhravae, tarda; Tricholaba trifolii, viciobia; Wachtliella persicariae; Zygiobia carpini.
new pictures
Andricus corruptrix; Dasineura dioicae; Neuroterus politus; Peronospora tomentosa; Phyllonorycter deschkai
February, 2023
new book
Hans Roskam & Sébastien Carbonnelle, 2023. Plant galls of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Keys to the more than 1500 species of gall inducers in plants, mosses and fungi, according to the plant genera where they are found. 834 Pages, illustrated with 655 line drawings; hard bound; € 79.95.
new pictures
Aceria tristriata; Acericecis vitrina; Andricus paradoxus; Aphis cf. euphorbiae; Arnoldiola quercus; Asphondylia baudysi; Carulaspis visci; Eriophyes licopolii; Golovinomyces macrocarpus; Macrolabis lonicerae; Peronospora arvensis; Phylus plagiatus; Rabdophaga degeerii, pierreana; Stigmella roborella; Tanysphyrus lemnae; Uroleucon chondrillae, montanivorum.
January, 2023
new pictures
Cecidophyopsis malpighianus; Exobasidium splendidum; Lasioptera arundinis, hungarica; Microlasioptera flexuosa; Melanagromyza oligophaga
November, 2022
new pictures
Aphis polygonata; Coleophora albitarsella; Cydalima perspectalis; Peronospora symphyti; Protomyces kriegerianus; Trichosiphonaphis polygonifoliae; Viscum album.
October, 2022
new pictures
Albugo candida; Cnephasia incertana; Contarinia petioli; Dysaphis pyri; Eotetranychus fraxini; Melanustilospora ari; Metallus lanceolatus; Mycocecis ovalis; Phyllonorycter corylifoliella; Phyllotreta nemorum; Rhopalosiphum oxyacanthae.
September, 2022
new pictures
Aleurochiton acerinus; Anthodiplosis rudimentalis; Ceroplastes rusci; Neurotoma nemoralis; Pseudargyrotoza conwagana; Puccinia sorghi.
August, 2022
new pictures
Callirhytis bella; Cavariella aegopodii; Lasiobotrys lonicerae; Liriomyza lutea; Metzneria metzneriella; Mononychus punctumalbum; Pammene aurana; Rabdophaga salicis; Tetraneura nigriabdominalis; Wachtliella ericina.
July, 2022
new pictures
Acantholyda hieroglyphica; Aceria chondrillae; Altica cornivorax; Amphitetranychus viennensis; Andricus quercuscorticis; Anguina agrostis; Aphis fabae mordvilkoi; Arge ochropus, pagana; Athalia rosae; Aulacorthum vaccinii; Brevicoryne brassicae; Cystiphora schmidti; Dasineura lathyri; Emmelina monodactyla; Grapholita funebrana; Hoplocampa minuta; Macrolabis holosteae; Mompha epilobiella; Nannfeldtiomyces sparganii; Oxyna flavipennis; Pammene aurana; Phaeoramularia punctiformis; Peronospora violacea; Podosphaera tridactyla; Rabdophaga karschi; Ramularia aromatica; Resseliella theobaldi; Rhynchites bacchus; Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata; Tetramesa hordei; Thecaphora seminis-convolvuli; Uroleucon grossum.