CACTUS-FEEDING INSECTS AND MITES 



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Cactus Species 

 Opuntia — Continued 



dillenii (Ker-Gawler) Haworth 



discata Griffiths 



discolor Britten & Rose 



durangensis Britton & Rose 

 echinocarpa Engelmann & Bigelow 



elata Link & Otto 

 elatior Miller 



engelmainnii Salm-Dyck 



Insect or Mite 



Melitara prodenialis Walker 

 Olyca phryganoides Walker 

 Ozamia lucidalis (Walker) 

 Mimorista flavidissimalis (Grote) 

 Gerstaeckeria hubbardi (LeConte) 



cubaecola (Fisher) 



insulana (Fisher) 

 Cecidomyia opuntiae (Felt) 

 Chelinidea vittiger Uhler 

 Dactylopius opuntiae Lichtenstcin 



confusus Cockerell 

 Megastes cyclades (Druce) 

 Asphondylia opuntiae Felt 

 Chelinidea vittiger Uhler 

 Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg) 

 Tucumania tapiacola Dyar 

 Mimorista pulchellalis (Dyar) 

 Dactylopius sp. near confusus Cock- 

 erell 



ceylonicus Green 

 Tetranychus opuntiae Banks 

 Cahela ponderosella (Barnes & 



McDunnough) 

 Moneilema spoliata Horn 

 Chelinidea vittiger Uhler 

 Dactylopius newsteadi Cockerell 

 Lonchaea alexanderi Brethes 

 Amalafrida leithella (Dyar) 

 Cecidomyia opuntiae (Felt) 

 Dactylopius opuntiae Lichtenstcin 

 Melitara doddalis Dyar 

 Olycella subumbrella (Dyar) 

 Noctuelia elautalis Grote 

 Moneilema armata LeConte 



gigas LeConte 



laevigata Bland 

 Cactophagus spinolae (Gyllenhal) 

 Asphondylia opuntiae Felt 

 Chelinidea canyona Hamlin 



vittiger Uhler 

 Narnia pallidicornis St SI 



snowi Van Duzee 

 Dactylopius opuntiae Lichtenstcin 



