Miconia sp. 8

Maia, Valéria Cid & Mascarenhas, Bernardo, 2023, Insect galls of Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos (Rio de Janeiro State, Southeastern Brazil), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63, pp. 1-56 : 29

Miconia sp. 8 (n = 2)

Gall: on bud, ovoid or globoid, red, wrinkled, glabrous ( Fig. 14G ). Gall-inducer: not determined. Parasitoids: Hymenoptera . Trails: Teresópolis: Suspensa (25.XI.2021), Mozart-Catão (27.X.2021), Barragem to Casa do Pesquisador entrance (07.XII.2021).

Gall: on leaf, globoid, green or red, glabrous ( Fig. 14H ).

Gall-inducer: Cecidomyiidae . Parasitoids: Hymenoptera .

Trail: Teresópolis: Mozart-Catão (27.X.2021, 25.V.2022).

Several species and morphospecies of Miconia host galls as reported by Almada & Fernandes (2011), Maia (2011), Silva et al. (2011), Araújo et al. (2012), Julião et al. (2014) and Carvalho &Mota(2018) in AM; Santos et al. (2012) and Araújo et al. (2011, 2014) in GO, Vieira et al. (2018) in BA, Santos et al. (2011) in PE, Fernandes et al. (1997, 2001), GonÇalves-Alvim & Fernandes (2001), Maia & Fernandes (2004), Malves & Frieiro-Costa (2012),and Maia (2013 a, 2014) in MG, Maia (2001), Rodrigues et al. (2014) and Carvalho-Fernandes et al. (2016) in RJ, Urso-Guimarães & Scareli-Santos (2006), Maia et al. (2008), Ribeiro et al. (2019), and Saito & Urso-Guimarães (2012) in SP,Toma & MendonÇa-Jr.(2013) and MendonÇa-Jr. etal. (2014) in RS.

Figures

Figure 14. Insect galls of Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos(RJ,Brazil):(A-L) On Melastomataceae:(A) On Miconia sp.3, leaf gall,(B-C) On Miconia sp.4: (B) leaf gall,(C) bug gall, (D) On Miconia sp.5, leaf gall, (E) On Miconia sp.6, leaf gall,(F) On Miconia sp.7, leaf gall, (G-H) On Miconia sp.8: (G) bud gall,(H) leaf gall,(I) On Pleroma sp.1, bud gall,(J) On Pleroma sp.2,leaf petiole gall,(K) On Pleroma sp.3, bud gall, (L) On Pleroma sp.4, bud gall.