Jaapiella chelidonii Fedotova, 2008
on Chelidonium
Chelidonium majus, Norway, Brønnøya, Brønnøyveien 32, 4.vi.2021 © Hallvard Elven: female
Chelidonium majus, Norway, Brønnøya, Brønnøyveien 18, 4.vi.2021 © Hallvard Elven: gall
Chelidonium majus, Norway, Brønnøya, Brønnøyveien 18, 4.vi.2021 © Hallvard Elven: gall
Chelidonium majus, Norway, Brønnøya, Brønnøyveien 32, 4.vi.2021 © Hallvard Elven: gall
Chelidonium majus, Norway, Brønnøya, Brønnøyveien 32, 4.vi.2021 © Hallvard Elven: gall
Chelidonium majus, Norway, Brønnøya, Brønnøyveien 32, 4.vi.2021 © Hallvard Elven: larva
Chelidonium majus, Norway, Brønnøya, Brønnøyveien 32, 4.vi.2021 © Hallvard Elven: male
Chelidonium majus, Belgium, prov. Antwerp, Mol, 14.vi.2019 © Carina Van Steenwinkel
another image
infected flower bud
opened gall with young larvae
mature larvae
Chelidonium majus, Denmark © Simon Haarder
cut-out of the same picture
gall
white, later pink, gregarious larvae in the disfigured flower buds.
host plants
Papaveraceae, monophagous
Chelidonium majus.
notes
This species was described from Russia; the observation in Denmark was the first in western Europe.
references
Gagné & Jaschhof (2014), Haarder, Bruun, Harris & Skuhravá (2016a), Skuhravá & Skuhravý (2021a: 139).