Mecinus laeviceps Tournier, 1873

on Linaria

gall

weak swelling in the lower part of a young shoot; the section above the gall becomes stunted. In the gall several weevil larvae or pupae.

host plants

Plantaginaceae, narrowly monophagous

Linaria corifolia, genistifolia.

notes

Toševski ao distinguish within this species three subspecies: next to M. l. laeviceps, M. l. meridionalis Toševski & Jović 2013 and M. l. corifoliae Toševski & Jović 2013. The first two subspecies live exclusively on L. genistifola, the third only on corifolia.

larva, pupa

See Gosik ao.

references

Gosik, Skuhrovec, Caldara & Toševski (2020a), Toševski, Caldara, Jović ao (2013a)