Amphibolips ellipsoidalis

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Amphibolips
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, red, white, yellow, green, purple
Texture: hairless, mottled
Abundance:
Shape: spindle
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment:
Walls: thick
Location: bud, stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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Field notes on gall-inhabiting cynipid wasps with descriptions of new species
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Amphibolips ellipsoidalis, new species

Host. β€” Quercus palustris.

Gall (fig. 26). β€” A bud gall of early spring as new growth is starting. Spindle-shaped, blunt at both ends, up to 14 mm. long by 5 mm. in diameter, smooth, mottled with white when fresh, falling to ground when mature. Produced from weak lateral buds.

Habitat. β€” The type fly was reared from a gall collected May 9, 1920, on Q. palustris at "Dyche" on the wooded banks of the Potomac below Alexandria, Va. The fly was found dead in breeding cage April 10, 1921, Similar galls have been found in spring on Q. coccinea at Ravinia and Fort Sheridan, IL.; Miller, Ind.; and Washington, D. C. A shorter and broader gall with the same structure was seen on Q. imbricaria at Joliet, IL.

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- LH Weld: (1926) Field notes on gall-inhabiting cynipid wasps with descriptions of new speciesΒ©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7610635#page/373/mode/1up


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