Striatoandricus furnessulus (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Striatoandricus
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, red, white
Texture: woolly, hairy
Abundance:
Shape: tuft, cluster
Season: Summer, Fall
Related:
Alignment:
Walls:
Location: stem
Form:
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Andricus sp. A Woolly-stem-gall wasp
Synonymy:
Name
Notes
Andricus furnessulus
Previous name
Andricus q-arizonica-woolly-stem-gall (agamic)

Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Druon Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with description of five new species

Striatoandricus furnessulus (Weld, 1944), comb. nov.

Andricus furnessulus Weld, 1944: 12, female, gall

Galls (Fig. 243). A woolly mass partly or entirely encircling small twigs, measuring up to 30 by 25 mm, pure
white or rosy when young, consisting of a large number of separate biconical cells attached at a common point, each covered with long hairs, about 7 by 5 mm; shorter and broader than in S. furnessae (Weld 1944).

Biology. Only an asexual generation is known, inducing galls on Q. oblongifolia.

Distribution. USA: Arizona

- Victor Cuesta-Porta, George Melika, James Nicholls, Graham Stone, Juli Pujade-Villar: (2022) Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Druon Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with description of five new species©


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