#4264 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Pruimenhoorntjesmijt

Phyllocoptes eupadi

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Bernd Bäumler · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © John Magne Grindeland · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Evgenij Samarin · CC BY 4.0
4. © Rytis Skominas · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Degtyarev Nikolai Ivanovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Jurga Motiejūnaitė · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Lisse, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
8. Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
9. Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
10. Alkmaar, Nederland:© Joost . · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Phyllocoptes eupadi is a mite that chemically induces a pouch gall to develop as a sub-spherical distortion rising up from the upper surface of the lamina of leaves of blackthorn shrubs Prunus spinosa and other Prunus spp. Synonyms are Eriophyes padi (Nalepa) and Phytoptus padi prunianus (Nalepa 1890).

base stats

NL sightings 31iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,033iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).