Jumping Plant Louse
Jumping Plant Louse - Trichochermes walkeri
Alternative names
Rolled Leaf Gall
Description
The Jumping Plant Louse, Trichochermes walkeri, causes the leaf margin to curl and a gall to be formed on the leaves of Buckthorn. The gall is more likely to be seen than the adult plant louse.
Identification difficulty
Gall 
Adult 
Habitat
Any area where Buckthorn is present.
UK Status
Not scarce but rather local and limited by the range of the host plant Purging Buckthorn in Britain.
VC55 Status
Uncommon or under recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
14 September 2012
Gall on Buckthorn - Causer Jumping Plantlouse (Trichochermes walkeri) Marsh near Old Fosse Sapcote SP 4966 9213 (taken 25.9.2009)_gall.JPG)
Graham Calow
Marsh near Old Fosse, Sapcote
25 September 2009
gall on Buckthorn
Mark Skevington
Ketton Quarry
07 September 2024
David Nicholls
Watermead CP, Birstall
27 September 2022
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Marsh near Old Fosse
16 July 2020
gall on Buckthorn
martindgrimes
Clipsham Park Wood
30 August 2020
 - Causer Jumping Plantlouse (Trichochermes walkeri) Marsh near Old Fosse Sapcote SP 4966 9213 (taken 25.9.2009)_gall.JPG)
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