Myopites apicatus Freidberg, 1980
on Pulicaria
Pulicaria dysenterica, UK, Suffolk, Kelsale x.2019 © Sébastien Carbonelle
opened flower head, with empty galled fruitlet.

Pulicaria dysenterica, Maassluis, Oranjeplassen © Jan Scheffers, det John Smit

a healthy (left) and a galled capitulum

larva

Pulicaria dysenterica, Belgium, Bruxelles, Hof ter Musschen: old, vacated gall © Jean-Yves Baugnée
host plants
Asteracee, monophagous
Pulicaria dysenterica.
references
Buhr (1965a), Béguinot (2006c), Freidberg (1979a), Neuenschwander & Freidberg (1983a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Smit (2003a, 2010a), Spooner & Bowdrey (2012a).
Last modified 16.x.2020