Aceria drabae (Nalepa, 1890)
on Brassicaceae
Berteroa incana, Belgium, prov. Antwerp, Balen, de Keiheuvel 16.vi.2018 © Carina Van Steenwinkel: disfigured plant
detail
galls
Berteroa incana, Belgium, prov. Antwerp, Mol © Carina Van Steenwinkel
galled leaves
galled inflorescence
Cardamine bellidifolia, drawing by Liro (1940), copied from Roivainen (1950a).
gall
also the inflorescence is disfigured; the flowers are greened and strongly hairy.
host plants
Brassicaceae, broadly oligophagous
Alyssum alyssoides, hirsutum, montanum, tortuosum; Arabidopsis arenosa; Arabis hirsuta; Barbarea vulgaris; Berteroa incana; Camelina microcarpa, sativa; Capsella bursa-pastoris, rubella; Cardamine alpina, bellidifolia, hirsuta, impatiens, pratensis, resedifolia; Cardaria draba; Descuriania sophia; Draba aizoides, daurica, incana, muralis, nivalis, “rupestris”; Erophila verna; Erysimum cheiranthoides, diffusum, hieracifolium; Lepidium graminifolium, ruderala; Lobularia maritima; Pritzelago alpina; Sisymbrium altissimum, loeselii. officinale, orientale; Syrenia cana.
A reference by Monfreda & de Lillo to Daucus carota must be a mistake.
synonyms
Eriophyes drabae; Aceria capsellae (Nalepa, 1890); Aceria cardaminesbellidifoliae (Liro, 1940); Aceria, Phytoptus, longior Nalepa, 1891.
Monfreda & de Lillo (2012a) discuss A. longior as a valid species.
references
Béguinot (2012a), Bellman (2012a), Bohinc & Trdan (2013a), Boczek & Petanović (1996a), Buhr (1964b, 1965a), Coulianos & Holmåsen (1991a), Coulianos & Karlsson (2014a), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Denizhan, Monfreda, de Lillo & Çobanoğlu (2015a), Docters van Leeuwen (1936a), Farkas (1965a), Hellrigl (2003a), Houard (1908a, 1909a), de Lillo, Panzarino, Loverre, ao (2017a), Monfreda & de Lillo (2012a), Nalepa (1929a), Petanović (1998a), Petanović & Stanković (1999a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Ripka (2007a), Roivainen (1950a), Roskam (2009a), Skoracka, Lewandowski & Boczek (2005a), Stănescu (2009a), Tomasi (2012a, 2014a), Weidner (1954a), Živković, Vidović, Jojić, ao (2017a).