Acericecis campestre Harris, 2004
on Acer
Acer campestre, Hungary, Mosonmagyaróvár, 8.v.2017 © László Érsek: upperside gall
older, vacated gall
several together
15.v.2019: the larva in its depression
detail
larva at the one side …
… and a the other side; there is no spatula
Acer campestre, Belgium, prov. Namur, Étang de Virelles, 31.v.2014 © Sébastien Carbonnelle
same leaf, underside
6.vii.2014, larva
gall
A single larva lives in a small depression at the underside of the leaf; at the upper side a little wart, less than a mm high; around this point a yellowed zone, ± 1 cm ø. After the larva has vacated the gall a yellow spot remains the eventually withers. The larva is whitish, almost hyaline, short and squat of shape and it lacks a sternal spatula. Univoltine, pupation in the soil.
host plants
Sapindaceae, narrowly monophagous
Acer campestre.
synonyms
Redfern & Shirley (2011a) synonymise campestre with A. vitrina; this is in agreement with the Fauna Europaea (2014), but not with the checklist by Gagné & Jaschhof (2014a).
references
Bruun (2019a), Burton, Carbonnelle, Ellis & Schneider (2019a). Burton, Ellis & Schneider (2022a), Gagné (2010a), Gagné & Jaschhof (2014a), Lambinon, Carbonnelle & Claerebout (2015a), Máca (2012a), Roskam (2019a), Roskam & Carbonnelle (2015a), Skuhravá & Skuhravý (2021a: 21), Skuhravá, Skuhravý & Buhr (2013a), Skuhravá, Skuhravý & Massa (2007a), Skuhravá, Skuhravý & Meyer (2014a).