Eriophyes inangulis
{{Short description|Species of mite}}
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| image = Eriophyes inangulis N on upper surface.JPG
| image_caption = Mature midrib galls on an alder leaf
| genus = Eriophyes
| species = inangulis
| authority = Nalepa, 1919{{cite web|url=http://www.chinchilla.hustej.net/halkotvorci%20podle%20systemu.htm |title=World of Galls Online |accessdate=July 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220090306/http://chinchilla.hustej.net/halkotvorci%20podle%20systemu.htm |archivedate=February 20, 2015 }}{{cite book |editor=F. B. Stubbs |year=1986 |title=Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls |publisher=British Plant Gall Society |isbn=0-9511582-0-1 |page=14}}
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Eriophyes inangulis is a mite that forms the alder vein angle gall.{{cite book |author=Arnold Darlington |year=1975 |title=The Pocket Encyclopaedia of Plant Galls in Colour |publisher=Blandford Press |location=Poole, Dorset |isbn=0-7137-0748-8 |pages=144–145}} It develops in a chemically induced gall; a sub-spherical distortion rising up from the upper surface of the leaves of alder trees Alnus glutinosa along the midrib. Synonyms are Eriophyes laevis inangulis, Phytoptus laevis, and Cephaloneon pustulatum.
The physical appearance
The gall's appearance on the upper surface is sub-spherical, smooth and may vary in colour from pale yellow-green to deep red. The adult mite lives on alder tree sap, sucked from the cell tissues. The galls cluster along the midrib in the angle of the veins.{{cite web |url=http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/forest/species/alder.html |publisher= |title=Trees for life |accessdate=July 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301013742/http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/forest/species/alder.html |archive-date=March 1, 2014 |url-status=dead }} The wide opening and interior on the lower epidermis and is lined with large numbers of small hairs. Galls may be so numerous that the leaf expansion is inhibited.{{cite book |author=M. Redfern |author2=P. Shirley |name-list-style=amp |year=2002 |title=British Plant Galls |publisher=FSC Publications |isbn=1-85153-214-5 |page=279}}
Infestations of alder vein angle galls
The galls induced appear not to affect the health of trees infected with these mite species and no practical way of controlling or preventing them exists.{{cite web |url=http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/problem-solving/garden-pests-nail-gall/ |publisher=Gardeners World |title=Nail Gall |accessdate=July 5, 2012}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.turdussound.dk/Mit%20Galleri/arter%20sider/El%20%28Alnus%29/El%20%28Eriophyes%20inangulis%29.htm Alder vein angle gall]
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