| Eriophyes tiliae | |
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| Mature nail galls on a lime leaf | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Family: | Eriophyidae |
| Genus: | Eriophyes |
| Species: | E. tiliae
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| Binomial name | |
| Eriophyes tiliae (H. A. Pagenstecher, 1857)[1]
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Eriophyes tiliae is a mite that forms the lime nail gall or bugle gall.[2] It develops in a chemically induced gall; an erect, oblique or curved distortion rising up from the upper surface of the leaves of the lime (linden) trees (genus Tilia), such as the large-leaved lime tree Tilia platyphyllos, the common lime tree Tilia × europaea, etc.
- ^ "Eriophyes tiliae". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- ^ Arnold Darlington (1975). The Pocket Encyclopaedia of Plant Galls in Colour. Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press. pp. 121, 159. ISBN 0-7137-0748-8.