Eugenia sp. 4

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 : 35

Eugenia sp. 4 (n = 2)

Gall: on stem,fusiform,brown,glabrous,one-chambered ( Fig. 17H ). Gall-inducer: Cecidomyiidae . Parasitoids: Hymenoptera . Trail: Teresópolis: Suspensa (26.XI.2021).

Gall: on leaf, globoid, intralaminar, yellow, glabrous, one-chambered ( Fig. 17I ). Gall-inducer: Cecidomyiidae .

Trail: Teresópolis: Suspensa (26.XI.2021).

Several species and morphospecies of Eugenia host galls as reported by Julião et al. (2014) in AM, Araújo et al. (2011, 2014) in GO, Urso-Guimarães et al. (2017) and Ascendino & Maia (2018) in MS, Nogueira et al. (2016), Vieira et al. (2018), Silva et al. (2018) and Santana et al. (2020) in BA, Fernandes et al. (1988, 1997, 2001), GonÇalves-Alvim & Fernandes (2001), Maia & Fernandes (2004), Carneiro et al. (2009), Coelho et al. (2009, 2013), Luz et al. (2012), Malves & Frieiro-Costa (2012), and Maia (2013a) 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), Saito & Urso-Guimarães (2012) in SP, and MendonÇa-Jr. et al. (2014) in RS.

Figures

Figure 17.Insect galls of ParqueNacional da Serra dosÓrgãos (RJ,Brazil):(A-L) OnMyrtaceae:(A-D) OnEugenia sp.2:(A) leafgall,(B)bud gall,(C) leafgall,(D)bud gall,(E-G) On Eugenia sp.3: (E) leaf vein gall,(F) stem gall,(G) bud gall,(H-I) On Eugenia sp.4: (H) stem gall, (I) leaf gall, (J-K) On Myrcia sp.1: (J) intralaminar leaf gall,(K) extralaminar leaf gall,(L) On Myrcia sp.2, bud gall.