BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Darlington, A., 1968

A Pocket Encyclopedia of Plant Galls in colour

The book is arranged by host plant in taxonomic order (CTW, 1962). For each plant genus, the galls are described and cross-referenced to the illustrations. These are grouped in a colour section near the front of the book comprising 80 colour plates containing 293 photographs, photomicrographs, diagrams and paintings by M.J.D. Hirons.

The quality of the colour printing is rather poor, but the galls are recognisable.

Publisher Blandford Press
Coverage A selection of common and noticable species.
Illustrations 80 colour plates containing 293 photographs plus a few line drawings and half-tone photographs in the text.
Identify In the Hand (also useful to examine with x8 or x10 hand lens).

Malcolm Storey

Taxonomic Scope

ACARI (mites) Identification Current
COLEOPTERA (beetles) Identification Current
CECIDOMYIIDAE (gall midges) Identification Current
CHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid wasps) Identification Current
CYNIPOIDEA Identification Current
ICHNEUMONOIDEA Identification Current
BRACONIDAE (braconid parasitic wasps) Identification Current
TENTHREDINOIDEA (a superfamily of sawflies) Identification Current
LEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths) Identification Current
HOMOPTERA (bugs) Identification Current
NEMATODA (roundworms) Identification Current
MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) Identification Current
MONERA (prokaryotes) Identification Current