Antron daileyi (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Antron
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, tan
Texture: bumpy, hairless, ruptured/split
Abundance: rare
Shape: cluster
Season: Fall
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls: thin
Location: stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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New cynipid wasps from the southwestern United States (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)
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Antron daileyi Lyon, new species

Range: El Paso cty TX

Host: Quercus pungens. Galls of this type were also seen on Q arizonica, grisea, and oblongifolia, but no wasps were reared from them.

Gall.--Fig 17. Monothalamous, thin-walled blisters that burst from cracks in the bark of twigs; galls are smooth, tan, 5-7 mm long. Adult females emerged 23-26 Mar and oviposited in unopened, dormant buds.

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- RJ Lyon: (1996) New cynipid wasps from the southwestern United States (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)Β©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56138670#page/200/mode/1up


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