Hedera helix, France, Corsica, Feliceto, Mare e Monti © Stéphane Claerebout

damage

also leaves become disfigured

the scale

© Raymond Gill, California Department of Food and Agriculture

Bupleurum falcatum, Belgium, prov. Namur, Rochefort, RN de la Carrière de Bièrnochamps © Stéphane Claerebout

detail

larva

mature scale

Bupleurum falcatum, Belgium, prov Namur, Viroinval, Nismes © Stéphane Claerebout; malformations left behind now the causer has become adult.

gall

scale, attached to the stem in a low depression that is surrounded by a low ridge. Locally the stem is swollen and malformed.

host plants

polyphagous

Achillea millefolium, setacea; Aegonychon purpurocaeruleum; ?Alchemilla vulgaris; Alyssum montanum; Anthyllis vulneraria; Arabis collina, rosea; Bupleurum falcatum; Campanula garganica, glomerata, rapunculoides, rapunculus, trachelium; Capsella bursa-pastoris; Cardamine glauca; Centaurea scabiosa; Chenopodiastrum hybridum; Clinopodium acinos; Cota tinctoria; Echium vulgare; Epilobium palustre, roseum; Eupatorium cannabinum; Euphrasia; Falcaria vulgaris; Fragaria; Gentianella ciliata, germanica; Geranium robertianum; Glaux maritima; Gypsophila fastigiata; Hedera helix; Helianthemum nummularium; Heracleum sphondylium; Hieracium; Holosteum umbellatum; Hylotelephium telephium; Hypericum perforatum, pulchrum; Inula ensifolia; Knautia arvensis; Lactuca serriola, viminea; Leontodon hispidus; Leucanthemum vulgare; Ligustrum vulgare; Linaria; Lithospermum officinale; Lotus corniculatus; Malva thuringiaca; Medicago falcata, lupulina; Melilotus dentatus; Nigella arvensis; Onobrychis arenaria; Origanum; Pastinca sativa; Picris hieracioides; Pimpinella saxifragae; Pittosporum tobira; Plantago lanceolata; Polygonum; Potentilla argentea, erecta, grandiflora, hirta, recta; Pulsatilla pratensis; Salvia x sylvestris, verticillata; Sanguisorba minor; Scabiosa ochroleuca; Scorzoneroides autumnalis; Scrophularia; Securigera varia; Seseli annuum, libanotis, osseum; Silene viscaria; Sisymbrium altissimum; Stachys officinalis, recta; Teucrium chamaedrys, scorodonia; Thesium humifusum, linophyllon subsp. montanum; Thymus serpyllum, vulgaris; Veronica chamaedrys, officinalis; Vicia disperma, tenuifolia.

synonyms

Asterolecanium, Pollinia thesii Douglas, 1893; Asterolecanium massalongianum Targioni Tozzetti 1893; Asterolecanium arabidis; also A. fimbriatum sensu Buhr, Dauphin & Aniotsbehere at least most of the times, refers to arabidis.

references

Béguinot (2003a), Blanes-Dalmau, Caballero-López & Pujade-Villar (2017a), Buhr (1964b,c, 1965a), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Gomez-Menor Ortega (1948a), Hellrigl (2004a), Hoffmann (2002a), Houard (1908a, 1909a [“massalongoianum”]), Kozár, Guignard, Bachmann ao (1994a), Kozár & Ostafichuk (1987a), Łagowska & Golan (2002a), Malumphy (2009a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Roskam (2019a), ScaleNet, Schmutterer & Hoffmann (2003a), Şi̇şman & Ülgentürk (2010a), Trencheva, Gounari, Trenchev & Kapaxidi (2009a), Tomasi (2012a), Vovlas, Malumphy & Mifsud (2013a).