Would you help me with a shipment of ash cauliflower galls (Aceria fraxinivora)?

Hello again!

Did anyone have luck with obtaining galls of Aceria fraxinivora?

Best regards,

Simon

Sundus Abdulkariem Alabdulla

University of Basrah

C.P. Rahangdale

Indira Gandhi Agricultural University

Nagendra gowda M. S

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

Difo Voukang Harouna

University of Maroua

Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman

University of Auckland

Dmitry Telnov

Natural History Museum, London

I have passed your request on other colleagues in Latvia. Hope somebody will be able to help

Great, thanks Dmitry.

A. Panis

French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE)

Dear Doctor Haarder, You can be helped by the most famous taxonomists or scientists studying biology of gall midges in Western and Central Europe: Madame and Sir Shuhravà in Tchequia (Praha), two taxonomists in Spain (Universidad de Barcelona and Museo de Historia Natural en Madrid). may be do you know these 3 scientits. I am from past year, studying local ecology in 4 climatic micro-localities of some gall-midges species in France. Species are located in the Forest of Aiguines (administrative région: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur; departement: Var, between 500 and 1000 m in altitude). They live on beech (Fagus silvatica), two oaks (Qercus pubescens, Quercus ilex), Buxus sempervirens, Clematis sp. (may be vitalba or flammula), Rosa canina. Best wishes and regards. Sincerely yours. André Panis, Associated scientific at French National Research Intitute a-panis@orange.fr

Thanks for the comment, André Panis! I am indeed in contact with the two Czech experts Marcela and Vaclav from Prague (they supplied material from Czech Republic - a new country record for the gall midge).

By the way, the most southern record of this gall midge in Europe is actually from France (Avignon)

Galina Zamshina

Russian Academy of Sciences

Dear Haarder, I can't help you, because on the middle Urals (Yekaterinburg, Russia) we was not found an introduced ash of these arthropods.

Thanks for having a look in Yekaterinburg, Galina!

Sultan Çobanoğlu

Ankara University

Dear Simon

I will pass your request to my collwquesif we can find material I will try to help you.

Sincerely yours

Sultan ÇOBANOĞLU

Wonderful! I can see that the gall mite (Aceria fraxinivora) has been recorded from multiple localities in Turkey in your nice paper from 2015. I hope you and your co-workers manage to find some galls.

Hello again!

Did anyone have luck with obtaining galls of Aceria fraxinivora?

Best regards,

Simon

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This Phytomiptera is an endemic parasitoid of Eurysacca quinoae (Gelechiidae). Eurysacca larvae cause damage in quinoa crop cultivation.

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