Galling Arthropods and Their Associates (eBook)

Preface Part 1 Biodiversity and Community Structure: Latitudinal and Altitudinal Patterns in Species Richness and Mortality Factors of the Galling Sawflies on Salix Species in Japan.- Species Richness of Eriophyid Mites on Finnish Trees and Shrubs.- Diversity, Biology, and Nutritional Adaptation of Psyllids and their Galls in Taiwan.- Trophic Shift in d15N and d13C through Galling Arthropod Communities: Estimates from Quercus turbinella and Salix exigua.- Temporal Variation in the Structure of a Gall Wasp Assemblage along a Genetic Cline of Quercus crispula (Fagaceae).- 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.- 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.- Part 2 Biological Control and Galling Arthropods: Early Parasitoid Recruitment in Invading Cynipid Galls.- Parasitoid Recruitment to the Globally Invasive Chestnut Gall Wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus.- Cynipid Gall Wasps in Declining Black Oak in New York: Relationships with Prior Tree History and Crown Dieback.- Gall-forming Cecidomyiidae from Acacias: Can New Parasitoid Assemblages be Predicted?.- Recent Outbreaks of the Maize Orange Leafhopper Cicadulina bipunctata Inducing Gall-like Structures on Maize in Japan.- Part 3 Galling Arthropods - Plant Interactions: Different Oviposition Strategies in Two Closely Related Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae): Aggregation versus Risk Spreading.- A Protective Mechanism in the Host Plant, Aucuba, against Oviposition by the Fruit Gall Midge, Asphondylia aucubae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae.- Genetic Variation in the Timing of Larval Mortality and Plant Tissue Responses Associated with Tree Resistance against Galling Adelgids.- Variable Effects of Plant Module Size on Abundance and Performance of Galling Insects.- Biology and Life History of the Bamboo Gall Maker, Aiolomorphus rhopaloides Walker (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae.- Effects of Host-tree Traits on the Species Composition and Density of Galling Insects on Two Oak Species, Quercus crispula and Quercus serrata (Fagaceae).- Part 4 Indirect Effects of Galling Arthropods: Positive Indirect Effects of Biotic- and Abiotic-mediated Changes in Plant Traits on Herbivory.- Deer Browsing on Dwarf Bamboo Affects the Interspecies Relationships among the Parasitoids Associated with a Gall Midge.- Influence of the Population Dynamics of a Gall-inducing Cecidomyiid and Its Parasitoids on the Abundance of a Successor, Lasioptera yadokariae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae).- Part 5 Evolution and Taxonomy: Evolution of Wing Pigmentation Patterns in a Tephritid Gallmaker: Divergence and Hybridization.- The Evolution of Gall Traits in the Fordinae (Homoptera).- Life History Patterns and Host Ranges of the Genus Asphondylia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae).- Taxonomic Status of the Genus Trichagalma (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), with Description of the Bisexual Generation.- Phylogenetic Position of the Genus Wagnerinus Korotyaev (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Associated with Galls Induced by Asphondylia baca Monzen (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae).- Index