Clusia lanceolata Camb.

Maia, Valéria Cid & Mascarenhas, Bernardo, 2023, Insect galls of Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos (Rio de Janeiro State, Southeastern Brazil), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63, pp. 1-56 : 19

Clusia lanceolata Camb. (n = 1)

Gall: on leaf, intralaminar, globoid, green ou red, glabrous,one-chambered ( Fig.8F ). Gall-inducer: Clusiamyia nitida Maia, 1997 ( Cecidomyiidae ). Trail: Guapimirim: Museu Von Martius (27.IV.2022).

Maia (1996) described the gall-inducing species from Maricá,RJ.Until this moment,it was known only from the type-locality.

Galls on other congeneric species are morphospecies are known from AM ( Almada & Fernandes, 2011), PE ( Santos et al., 2012), GO ( Araújo et al., 2012, 2015), MS ( Julião et al., 2014), ES ( Bregonci et al., 2010; Maia et al., 2014), RJ ( Maia, 2001; Oliveira & Maia, 2005; Carvalho-Fernandes et al., 2016), SC ( Arriola & Melo-Júnior, 2016; Melo-Júnior et al., 2018).

Figures

Figure 8. Insect galls of Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos (RJ, Brazil): (A-B) On Bignoniaceae: (A) On Bignoniaceae sp. 1, leaf gall, (B) On Bignoniaceae sp. 2, stem and leaf petiole gall, (C) On Varronia sp. (Boraginaceae), bud gall, (D) On Rhipsalis olivifera N.P. Taylor & Zappi (Cactaceae), leaf gall, (E) On Celastraceae sp., leaf gall, (F-G) On Clusiaceae: (F) On Clusia lanceolata Camb., leaf gall, (G) On Tovomitopsis paniculata (Spreng.) Planch & Triana, leaf gall, (H) On Cayaponia sp. 2 (Curcubitaceae), leaf petiole, (I) On Dioscorea laxiflora Mart. ex Griseb. (Dioscoreaceae), leaf petiole, (J) On Polybotrya sp. (Dryopteridaceae), leaf petiole, (K-L) On Euphorbiaceae:(K) On Croton echinocarpus Müll. Arg.,stem gall,(L) On Croton floribundus Spreng.,leaf gall.