elm finger gall mite

(Aceria parulmi)

Conservation Status
elm finger gall mite
  IUCN Red List

not listed

     
  NatureServe

not listed

     
  Minnesota

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Description
 
 

Aceria is a genus of tiny mites. They are so small that they are almost impossible to see with the naked eye. Unless a scanning electron microscope is available, a morphological description of an adult individual is useless. However, many mites can be easily identified by the shape of the galls they produce and the plant species on which they are found.

Elm finger gall mite is a specialized plant feeder. It can be found on American elm and possibly on other elms.

Elm finger gall mite produces elongated, slender, yellowish-green, finger-like galls on the upper surface of the leaves. The galls are solitary – they do not coalesce into larger galls. They occur singly, mostly along the midrib but also along secondary veins. Sometimes they crowd in the angles between the midrib and the secondary veins.

 
     
 

Size

 
 

Tiny, almost microscopic

 
     
 

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Habitat and Hosts
 
 

American elm (Ulmus americana) and possibly other elms

 
     
 
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Distribution
 
 

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7, 24, 27, 29, 30.
 
  5/18/2021      
         
 

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Taxonomy
 
  Class Arachnida (arachnids)  
  Subclass Acari (mites)  
  Superorder Acariformes (mites)  
 

Order

Endeostigmata  
 

Superfamily

Eriophyoidea  
 

Family

Eriophyidae (gall and rust mites)  
 

Subfamily

Eriophyinae  
 

Tribe

Eriophyini  
 

Genus

Eriophyes  
       
 

The superfamily Eriophyoidea was formerly placed in the order Trombidiformes. A recent mitochondrial DNA study and phylogenetic analysis (Arribas et al., 2020) showed that the superfamily evolved earlier than Trombidiformes. It is sometimes now included in the order Endeostigmata. In modern taxonomic treatments Eriophyoidea is sister to the clade containing Trombidiformes.

 
       
 

Synonyms

 
 

Eriophyes parulmi

 
       
 

Common Names

 
 

elm finger gall mite

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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