Eriophyes parviflorae Rainiss, 1940

Acari, Eriophyidae

on Silene

gall

all flower parts within the calyce have turned leaflike or are greened.

hostplants

Caryophyllaceae, narrowly monophagous

Silene “parviflora”.

Silene parviflora is an ambigous name; according to the Euro+Med PlantBase (2014) it may refer to either Silene borysthenica or cretica.

notes

species very incompletely described (Ripka).

references

Buhr (1965a), Ripka (2008a).

23/08/2016