Andricus prescotti (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Andricus
Detachable: bothi
Color: brown, tan
Texture: stiff, hairless
Abundance: common
Shape: conical
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Location: fruit
Form: pip
Cells: monothalamous
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New American Cynipid Wasps From Galls

Gall (p. 17, fig 15). —A bare, smooth ellipsoidal gall, 5.0 mm. long by 2.9 mm. in diameter with a nipple at the apex, protruding from a shallow depression in the side of the acorn cup and dropping to the ground when mature in late summer, and then showing a girdle of hairs at the base. From one to eight on an acorn. Monothalamous.

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

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15672479#page/375/mode/1up


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