Andricus balanella (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Andricus
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, green, tan
Texture: honeydew, hairless, mottled
Abundance: common
Shape: globular
Season: Summer
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Location: fruit
Form: pip
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Callirhytis balanella
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New American Cynipid Wasps From Oak Galls

Callirhytis balanella, new species

Host: Quercus emoryi Torr.

Gall (pl. 1, fig. 3): Similar to a "pip" gall in shape but produced on the side of the cup of an undersized acorn in June and July. Gall slightly flattened, 4 mm. high by 3 mm. in diameter.

Habitat: The type and one paratype are from galls collected at Cherry, Ariz., by Mrs. N. W. Capron on Oct. 4, 1935. One adult emerged April 23 and the other May 1, 1937. One paratype is from a gall Mrs. Capron collected at Prescott, Ariz., Sept. 12, 1950, and the living adult was cut out Apr. 11, 1952. Galls were seen in the Santa Catalina and Huachuca Mountains and at Patagonia, Nogales, and Bisbee, Ariz., and at Alpine, Tex.

- LH Weld: (1957) New American Cynipid Wasps From Oak Galls©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/114064#page/149/mode/1up


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