Image Number: 5514608

Photographer:
Descriptor:
Symptoms
Description:
Spots with purple borders on a maple leaf caused by the Maple eyespot gall midge (Acericecis ocellaris). Symptoms resemble that of Eye spot caused by the fungus P. minima.
Image type:
Field

You must attribute the work in the manner specified (but not in any way that suggests endorsement). You may not use this work for commercial purposes unless permission is granted by the photographer or copyright owner.

Image location:

Subject

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Infraclass: Neoptera
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Diptera
Suborder: Nematocera
Infraorder: Bibionomorpha
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily: Cecidomyiinae
Tribe: Oligotrophini
Genus: Acericecis
Subject: Acericecis ocellaris (Osten Sacken, 1862)

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Sapindales
Family: Sapindaceae
Genus: Acer
Subject: Acer spp. L.
Node Affiliation:
Image uploaded:
Monday, June 23, 2014
Image last updated:
Thursday, August 28, 2014