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Trioza urticae

Trioza urticae

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Triozidae

Trioza urticae is a sap-sucking hemipteran bug in the family Triozidae which creates galls on the leaves of nettles (Urtica species). It was described by the Swedish biologist and physician, Carl Linnaeus in 1758. Description of the gall Galls are most obvious in August and September, when young leaves at the top of a shoot, above the summer growth are hairy, crinkled and have depressions containing a flat psyllid nymph.

Distribution

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