Dasineura viciae Diptera: Cecidomyiidae - gall midge
Dasineura viciae

Photographs on Vicia sativa (Common Vetch) and V. sepium (Bush Vetch)

Hosts:
Usually Vicia sativa, sepium, also V. bithynica, cracca, pannonica, villosa

Leaflets form green to reddish pod-like galls, each with 2-4 whitish or pale orange larvae. Two or three generations per year, larvae pupate in the soil

Similar: Dasineura spadicea only occurs on V. cracca
Macrolabis vicicola and Tricholaba similis (yellowish-red larvae) are iniquilines of D. viciae


Dasineura viciae

Dasineura viciae

Dasineura viciae
Dasineura viciae
Badbury Rings and Lytchett Matravers, Dorset. June 2015, September 2017

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