Feron parmula (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Feron
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, pink, red, yellow
Texture: hairless, mottled
Abundance: common
Shape: spangle/button
Season: Summer, Fall
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Disc Gall Wasp
Synonymy:
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New Species of North American Cynipidae (1900)

Andricus parmula n. sp.

Galls. — Minute, flat, saucer shaped, with a slight elevation in the center. This central portion is the small larval cell. They are sessile on the under side of the leaves of a species of oak unknown to me. They are only .08 of an inch across the top, and are of a fine red color. They are, in habit, very much like a species found on Q. alba, but are very much smaller, and the white oak gall is a pale blue color. I am not sure that the white oak gall has yet been reared. There are several other species that somewhat resemble this one. I received these galls from Mrs. E. H. King, of Napa City, California.

Dryophanta discus n. sp.
Galls. - Among the galls sent me several years ago by Mrs E. H. King, from Napa City, Cal., were a few specimens from which no insects appeared, but from which I removed three dead but perfectly developed individuals. The galls were circular, flat sessile disks growing in clusters on the under sides of the leaves of some species of oak, closely resembling Q. alba; but I am not sure this oak grows in that section. The galls are hardly one-eighth of an inch in diameter, and except in size and color might be taken for what is, I think, called the blue spangle gall, not uncommon on the white oak in the Atlantic States. It is smaller and lacks the blue color.
The shape suggests the trivial name.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7522412

- HF Bassett: (1900) New Species of North American Cynipidae (1900)©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7522373#page/336/mode/1up


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