unknown on Convolvulus canariensis

Convolvulus canariensis, Tenerife, ii.2020 © Sébastien Carbonelle

detail

underside

opened gall (underside) with causer

causer (freshly moulted psyllid?)

host plants

Convolvulaceae, monophagous

Convolvulus canariensis.

notes

This gall, that has been mentioned in the literature several times, was associated by Urbaneja-Bernat ao with a psyllid, “closely related to Trioza montanetana“. Unfortunately, the host plant of that species, described by Franquinho Aguiar in 2001 from Gran Canaria, is still unknown.

references

Buhr (1964b), Roskam (2019a), Franquinho Aguiar (2001a), Hesse (1971a), Urbaneja-Bernat, Pérez-Rodríguez, Krüger, ao (2019a).