Unknown q-alba-dwarf-acorn-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: integral
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Season: Fall
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Walls:
Location: fruit
Form: hidden cell
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Cynipid galls of the eastern United States

Quercus alba
Acorn galls
Undersized acorn (cup 7 mm in dia.) containing a single larval cell which occupies the whole interior. In fall (NY).

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Never reared. Undersized acorn of Q alba in gall (cup 7 mm in dia.) containing a single larval cell (NY).

- LH Weld: (1959) Cynipid galls of the eastern United States©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/273718#page/52/mode/1up


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