Salix alba, Belgium, prov. West Flanders, Kortrijk, Kleiputten ‘t Hoge Kortrijk, 11.vii.2015 © Stéphane Claerebout

Salix alba, Belgium, prov. Namur, Isnes, 21.vi.2007 © Jean-Yves Baugnée

Salix caprea, Belgium, prov. Hainaut, Monceau-sur-Sambre, 11.vii.2011 © Jean-Yves Baugnée

Salix alba, Biddinghuizen, Spijkbos, 14.x.2016 © Hans Jonkman

Salix alba, Leiden

Salix babylonica, Nieuwendam (winter aspect), 21.iii.2013

the single larva in the centre of the gall

the spatula

gall

Larva orange-red, solitary; a single generation per year; the larva hibernates, then pupates within the gall.

host plants

Salicaceae,monophagous

Salix alba, appendiculata, aurita, babylonica, caprea, cinerea, elaeagnos, excelsa, x fragilis, hastata, lanata, myrsinifolia, pedicellata, purpurea, repens & subsp. rosmarinifolia, silesiaca, triandra, viminalis.

larva

Kieffer (1892a). Möhn (1955s), Nijveldt & Yukawa (1982a) and Gol ao (2015a) describe the mature larva.

spatula (from Rübsaamen, 1916a)

prosternum with spatula (from Möhn, 1955a)

synonyms

Cecidomyia, Dasineura, Rhabdophaga, rosaria. Rabdophaga cinerearum (Hardy, 1850) probably is a synonym of rosaria, but the possibility remains that it rather is a synonym of the inquiline R. strobilina.

inquilines

Macrolabis saliceti; Rabdophaga schreiteri, strobilina.

references

Abras, Fassotte, Chandelier & Cavelier (2008a), Barnes (1951a), Béguinot (2002d, 2012a), Bellmann (2012a), Buhr (1965a), Cilbircioğlu & Ünal (2009a), Coulianos & Holmåsen (1991a), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Deckert & Deckert (2016a), Flügel (2016a), Gagné (2004a, 2010a), Gol, Namaghi, Hosseini & Skuhravá (2015a), Hellrigl (2006a, 2010a), Houard (1908a), Kollár (2007a, 2011a), Koops (2013a), Kopelke & Amendt (2002a), Haarder, Bruun, Harris & Skuhravá (2016a), Kieffer (1891a, 1892a), Lambinon, Schneider & Feitz (2001b, 2012a), Lehmann & Flügel (2012a), Lehmann & Hannover (2016a), Mirumian (2011a). Möhn (1955a), Nijveldt & Yukawa (1982a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Roskam (2009a), Roskam & Carbonnelle (2015a), Rübsaamen (1916a), Sánchez & Bruun (2018a), Simova-Tošić & Skuhravá (2001a), Simova-Tošić, Skuhravá & Skuhravý (1996a, 2000a, 2004a, 2007a), Simova-Tošić, Skuhravá, Skuhravý & Postolovski (2007a), Skrzypczyńska (2007a), Skuhravá (2006a), Skuhravá, Bayram, Çam ao (2005a), Skuhravá, Karimpour, Sadeghi ao (2014a), Skuhravá & Skuhravý (1994a, 1997a,b, 1999a, 2003a, 2005b,c, 2006a, 2007a, 2009a, 2010a,b), Skuhravá, Skuhravý, Blasco-Zumeta & Pujade-Villar (2006a), Skuhravá, Skuhravý & Carbonnelle (2017a), Skuhravá, Skuhravý, Dauphin & Coutin (2005a), Skuhravá, Skuhravý, Dončev & Dimitrova (1991a, 1992a), Skuhravá, Skuhravý & Hellrigl (2001a, 2002a), Skuhravá, Skuhravý & Jørgensen (2006a), Skuhravá, Skuhravý & Meyer (2014a), Skuhravá, Skuhravý & Neacsu (1972a), Skuhravá, Skuhravý, Skrzypczyńska & Szadziewski (2008a), Stelter (1989b), Sylvén (1983a), Tavares (1905a), Tomasi (2003a, 2014a), Unal & Akkuzu (2009a).