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title: "Alder Leaf Gall Mite"
description: "Eriophyes laevis — Insetti e ragni. Eriophyes laevis is a gall mite which makes small, pimple-like galls on the leaves of alder (Alnus species)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/alder-leaf-gall-mite
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Alder Leaf Gall Mite

> Eriophyes laevis — Insetti e ragni. Eriophyes laevis  is a gall mite which makes small, pimple-like galls on the leaves of alder (Alnus species).

- Scientific name: *Eriophyes laevis*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 5073
- Wikidata: [Q10488186](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10488186)
- iNaturalist taxon: [464223](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/464223)

## Names

- en: Alder Leaf Gall Mite
- pl: Kolbowiec olchowy

## Countries with the most observations

GB (976), US (459), FI (249), DK (183), RU (174), SE (150), CA (141), DE (139), LT (66), PL (49), FR (47), NO (43)

## Summary

Eriophyes laevis  is a gall mite which makes small, pimple-like galls on the leaves of alder (Alnus species). The mite was first described by the Austrian zoologist, Alfred Nalepa in 1889 and is found in Europe and North America.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriophyes_laevis

## Photo

![Alder Leaf Gall Mite](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/alder-leaf-gall-mite/medium.jpg)

Photo: Sarah Adamson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/287583605

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/alder-leaf-gall-mite?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).