Apethymus apicalis (Klug, 1818)

on Rosa

Rosa spec., Hungary, Budapest, 8.v.2021 © László Érsek

larva, lateral

dorsaal

detail

head and thorax

head

parasite

Larvae free on the leaves.

host plants

Rosaceae, monophagous

Rosa multiflora, rubiginosa, rugosa.

phenology

Hibernation as egg.

distribution within Europe

(PESI, 2020).

notes

The larva resembles the one of Allantus viennensis, equally on rose. A. viennensis has three transversal rows of tiny white warts per segment, aplicalis only two (Mol & Blommers).

references

Macek (2012c), Magis (1999a), Mol & Blommers (2017a), Pschorn-Walcher & Altenhofer (2000a), Taeger, Altenhofer, Blank, ao (1998a).