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Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986

Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls

A short handbook for identification of plant galls. The host plant genera are listed alphabetically. Under each genus the galls are grouped according to which part of the plant is affected.

Now superceded by Redfern & Shirley: "British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi", 2002.

Publisher British Plant Gall Society (BPGS)
Pages 95
ISBN 0 9511582 0
Illustrations Copious line drawings.
Identify In the Hand (also useful to examine with x8 or x10 hand lens).
Specimen Prep. Fresh galls.
Difficulty Sometimes need to cut a gall open to examine gall-causer.

Malcolm Storey

Taxonomic Scope

ACARI (mites) Identification Superseded
DIPTERA (two-winged flies) Identification Superseded
HYMENOPTERA (bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps) Identification Superseded
LEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths) Identification Superseded
HOMOPTERA (bugs) Identification Superseded
NEMATODA (roundworms) Identification Superseded
MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) Identification Superseded
BACTERIA (bacteria) Identification Superseded
Mycoplasma Identification Superseded
VIRUSES (viruses) Identification Superseded

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