Galling Arthropods and Their Associates: Ecology and Evolution

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Latitudinal and Altitudinal Patterns in Species Richness and Mortality Factors of the Galling Sawflies on Salix Species in Japan....Pages 3-19
Species Richness of Eriophyid Mites on Finnish Trees and Shrubs....Pages 21-32
Diversity, Biology, and Nutritional Adaptation of Psyllids and their Galls in Taiwan....Pages 33-42
Trophic Shift in δ 15 N and δ 13 C through Galling Arthropod Communities: Estimates from Quercus turbinella and Salix exigua ....Pages 43-53
Temporal Variation in the Structure of a Gall Wasp Assemblage along a Genetic Cline of Quercus crispula (Fagaceae)....Pages 55-65
Effects of Floods on the Survival and Species Component of Rhopalomyia Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Associated with Artemisia princeps (Asteraceae) Growing in a Dry Riverbed in Japan....Pages 67-77
Guild Structure of Gall Midges on Fagus crenata in Relation to Snow Gradient: Present Status and Prediction of Future Status as a Result of Global Warming....Pages 79-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Early Parasitoid Recruitment in Invading Cynipid Galls....Pages 91-101
Parasitoid Recruitment to the Globally Invasive Chestnut Gall Wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus ....Pages 103-121
Cynipid Gall Wasps in Declining Black Oak in New York: Relationships with Prior Tree History and Crown Dieback....Pages 123-132
Gall-forming Cecidomyiidae from Acacias: Can New Parasitoid Assemblages be Predicted?....Pages 133-147
Recent Outbreaks of the Maize Orange Leafhopper Cicadulina bipunctata Inducing Gall-like Structures on Maize in Japan....Pages 149-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Different Oviposition Strategies in Two Closely Related Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae): Aggregation versus Risk Spreading....Pages 161-168
A Protective Mechanism in the Host Plant, Aucuba , against Oviposition by the Fruit Gall Midge, Asphondylia aucubae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)....Pages 169-176
Genetic Variation in the Timing of Larval Mortality and Plant Tissue Responses Associated with Tree Resistance against Galling Adelgids....Pages 177-187
Variable Effects of Plant Module Size on Abundance and Performance of Galling Insects....Pages 189-197
Biology and Life History of the Bamboo Gall Maker, Aiolomorphus rhopaloides Walker (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae)....Pages 199-207
Effects of Host-tree Traits on the Species Composition and Density of Galling Insects on two Oak Species, Quercus crispula and Quercus serrata (Fagaceae)....Pages 209-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Positive Indirect Effects of Biotic- and Abiotic-mediated Changes in Plant Traits on Herbivory....Pages 219-228
Deer Browsing on Dwarf Bamboo Affects the Interspecies Relationships among the Parasitoids Associated with a Gall Midge....Pages 229-240
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Influence of the Population Dynamics of a Gall-inducing Cecidomyiid and Its Parasitoids on the Abundance of a Successor, Lasioptera yadokariae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)....Pages 241-249
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Evolution of Wing Pigmentation Patterns in a Tephritid Gallmaker: Divergence and Hybridization....Pages 253-263
The Evolution of Gall Traits in the Fordinae (Homoptera)....Pages 265-273
Life History Patterns and Host Ranges of the Genus Asphondylia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)....Pages 275-285
Taxonomic Status of the Genus Trichagalma (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), with Description of the Bisexual Generation....Pages 287-295
Phylogenetic Position of the Genus Wagnerinus Korotyaev (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Associated with Galls Induced by Asphondylia baca Monzen (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)....Pages 297-305