Eriosoma lanuginosum

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Eriosoma • Aphididae • Sternorrhyncha • Hemiptera • insects (plant pests) • pests-diseases-weeds

gall of Eriosoma lanuginosum on elm tree(click on image to enlarge it)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Eriosoma lanuginosum (Hartig,1839) - (elm balloon-gall aphid)

This aphid is found in Europe and western Asia. It develops on elm trees (primary host) forming large leaf galls (pseudogalls) and during the summer on the roots of pear trees (secondary host).


Publications covering Eriosoma lanuginosum

Ecology and Evolution (2022) 12 (6 - e8994)
Tiziano Londei (2022)
Aphid galls as a double food source for woodpeckers

Polish Journal of Entomology (Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne) (2015) 84, 311-323
Rimantas Rakauskas (2015)
Orchard aphids (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha, Aphidoidea) of Lithuania: a century of research



  • Other images of Eriosoma lanuginosum (IPM Images and PaDIL - click to enlarge)

  • wingless adult

  • head

  • tip of abdomen

  • siphunculus

  • leaf galls

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