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grape phylloxera
A gall-forming plant louse of the genus Phylloxera (family Phylloxeridae), or formerly included in this genus; esp. (more fully grape phylloxera, vine phylloxera) a destructive pest, Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, which feeds on the roots and leaves of grapevines. Also (in form Phylloxera): the genus itself. Also: the disease of vines caused by such insects. Also figurative.Originally placed in the genus Phylloxera, the grape phylloxera has also been called Viteus vitifolii.
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1869 Gardeners' Chron. 30 Jan. 109 M. Signoret..considered that the insect belongs to the genus Phylloxera.
1873 C. V. Riley Ann. Rep. Noxious Insects Missouri 57 The grape phylloxera... The term Phylloxera will..not only apply to the insect, but to its effect on the Vine.
1875 Amer. Cycl. XIII. 479/1 In 1873 Prof. J. E. Planchon was commissioned by the French government to visit America to study the phylloxera... The grape phylloxera is indigenous to the North American continent east of the Rocky mountains.
1883 Times 20 Nov. 4/3 Aphides, which live not on leaves or buds, but, as in the case of the dreaded vine phylloxera, in the small underground roots of plants.
1886 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 367 In 1865 the first appearance of the phylloxera in France occurred in the plateau of Pujant, near Roquemaure, on the right bank of the Rhone.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 7 May 1/3 Spite of his rosy cheeks, ‘la maladie des désabusés’, that phylloxera of the mental vineyard, holds him in its deadly grip.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xii. 248 The grape phylloxera (Phylloxera vitifoliae) is a common and injurious plant louse on grapes, especially on vinifera varieties.
1962 C. L. Metcalf & W. P. Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) vii. 411 It is only by taking advantage of the resistance of the American grape roots to the grape phylloxera..that we are able to grow European grapes in this country.
1986 C. O'Toole Encycl. Insects 60 A close relative of the true aphids is the Vine phylloxera which almost destroyed the European wine industry in the late 19th century, when it was introduced from North America.
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