Amorpha-fruticosa

Guides

• Acanthoscelides pallidipennis

  Acanthoscelides pallidipennis is a leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae, specifically within the seed beetle subfamily Bruchinae. Native to North America, it has been introduced to East Asia including Japan, where it was first recorded in 1997–1999. The species is a specialist seed predator of the introduced legume Amorpha fruticosa, achieving extremely high seed predation rates in its introduced range. It is subject to parasitism by Eupelmus wasps.

  seed-beetleBruchinaeintroduced-speciesseed-predatorAmorpha-fruticosaJapanbiological-control

• Walshia amorphella

  Walshia amorphella is a small moth in the family Cosmopterigidae described by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1864. It is a gall-forming species that induces galls on the host plant Amorpha fruticosa. The species is known from the central United States, with records from Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Kansas, and Texas. Its gall-forming habit supports an associated microcommunity of other organisms.

  gall-formermicrolepidopteraCosmopterigidaeAmorpha-fruticosacentral-United-States