Amphibolips globus (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Amphibolips
Detachable: detachable
Color: green, purple
Texture: hairless, mottled
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Fall, Summer
Alignment:
Walls: thin, radiating-fibers
Location: bud
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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New American Cynipid Wasps From Galls

Amphibolips globus, new species
Agamic generation?

Host.--Quercus palustris

In early September 1948 approximately 65 bud galls were collected on the ground under a large pin oak tree only a few feet from where galls of A. globus [sexgen] herein described were taken the previous June. Similar galls had not been seen here before — circumstantial evidence that it is the alternating form. It occurs in August and September at the end of the season's growth. It is smooth, bare, green with small purple spots marking the attachment of numerous radiating fibers within, up to 14 mm. in diameter, rounded at distal end, slightly tapering at attached base, the wall relatively thin (.8 mm.). Larval cell ellipsoidal, 6 by 4 mm. Galls drop in late August or early September and soon turn brown and become slightly wrinkled. At this time the nutritive layer is all used up and full-grown larvae and pupae are found inside. Some may emerge in the fall but the adults described below were cut out of the galls on October 18 and November 5, 1949. As they are thought to be the alternating agamic generation of globus they are not given a different specific name.

- LH Weld: (1952) New American Cynipid Wasps From Galls©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15672479#page/367/mode/1up


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