Insect and mite galls on land plants have a spotty but periodically rich and abundant fossil
record of damage types (DTs), ichnotaxa, and informally described gall morphotypes. The …

Many hemipteroids are major pests and vectors of microbial pathogens, infecting crops.
Saliva of the hemipteroids is critical in enabling them to be voracious feeders on plants …

Galls are neoformed structures induced by specific animals, fungi, bacteria, virus or some
parasitic plants on their host plant organs. Developmental processes are well known in …

Insects and nematodes are the most diverse and abundant groups of multicellular animals
feeding on plants on either side of the soil–air interface. Several herbivore-induced …

The Psylloidea,> 4000 named species known today, are plant-feeding, sap-sucking insects
sleeved under the Sternorrhyncha. Most species of Psylloidea are confined to the tropics …

Abstract The psyllid Aphalara itadori Shinji (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) is a biocontrol agent
against invasive knotweed species (Polygonaceae) in Europe and North America. Despite …

A central notion of the early evolution of insect galling is that this unique behavior was
uncommon to rare before the diversification of angiosperms 135 to 125 m. yr. ago. However …

Abstract Leaf-galling Eriophyidae (Acarina) may promote simple or complex alterations in
the organs of their host plants, such as an increase in indumentum density or the …

Background Recent studies show that galling Hymenoptera and Diptera are able to
synthesize the plant hormone indole-3-acetic acid (auxin) from tryptophan and that plant …

The success of galling insects could be determined by synchronisation with host plant
phenology and climate conditions, ensuring suitable oviposition sites for gall induction and …