Ficus glumosa galls

Ficus glumosa Delile 1826

Stem, leaf petiole or bud galls

(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus; Subgenus: Urostigma; Section: Galoglychia; Subsection: Platyphyllae)

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	Photographs © Jerry Meislik (Montana, USA).








	Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Biology

Ormyrus species (Ormyridae) have been reared from these petiole/ leaf bud galls on Ficus glumosa, but they may or may not be the primary gall former. The Ormyrus species could be parasitoids or inquilines of Eurytomidae or Epichrysomallinae that instigated the gall formation (personal communication by Simon van Noort).

Credits

Photographs © Jerry Meislik (Montana, USA) or © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

Citation: van Noort, S. & Rasplus, JY. 2024. Figweb: figs and fig wasps of the world. URL: www.figweb.org(Accessed on <day-month-year>).