Mecinus laeviceps Tournier, 1873

Coleoptera, Curculionidae

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.

hostplants

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.

references

Toševski, Caldara, Jović, Baviera, Hernández-Vera, Gassmann & Emerson (2013a)

17/05/2014