Extremely Long-Closed Galls of a Social Aphid
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Source
Issue
Vol. 2009, Issue 2009 (31 Dec. 2009), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2009-09-06
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The aphid Nipponaphis monzeni (Hormaphidinae, Nipponaphidini) forms large, hard, completely closed galls on the evergreen Distylium racemosum, its primary host, in south-western Japan.
By marking 100 galls on a tree and monitoring them over five years, and by sampling many immature galls from another tree in various seasons and dissecting them, we found that galls of N.
monzeni are initiated in June, that they remain small for at least 21–22 months and that tiny fundatrices survive for over one year.
Some galls rapidly expand during April/May in the third year.
Others remain small and swell up in the fourth year and still others in the fifth year.
Full-grown galls open in November/December, and alates fly to evergreen oaks, the secondary host.
Thus galls of N.
monzeni take 2.5 years to mature at earliest (3-year life cycle) and some galls 3.5 or 4.5 years (4- or 5-year life cycle).
American Psychological Association (APA)
Kurosu, Utako& Aoki, Shigeyuki. 2009. Extremely Long-Closed Galls of a Social Aphid. Psyche،Vol. 2009, no. 2009, pp.1-9.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Kurosu, Utako& Aoki, Shigeyuki. Extremely Long-Closed Galls of a Social Aphid. Psyche No. 2009 (2009), pp.1-9.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Kurosu, Utako& Aoki, Shigeyuki. Extremely Long-Closed Galls of a Social Aphid. Psyche. 2009. Vol. 2009, no. 2009, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-450577
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-450577