Striatoandricus tenuicornis (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Striatoandricus
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, red
Texture: woolly, hairy
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Season: Summer, Fall
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Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, leaf midrib
Form:
Cells: polythalamous
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Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Druon Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with description of five new species

Striatoandricus tenuicornis (Bassett, 1881), comb. nov.

Cynips tenuicornis Bassett, 1881: 92, female, gall.
Diplolepis tenuicornis (Bassett): Weld 1926: 34.
Andricus tenuicornis (Bassett): Weld 1951: 636.

Galls. Densely hairy hemispherical masses attached by a single small point to the upper or under surface of the leaves. They are from 10-20 mm in diameter. The woolly hairs are of a dull russet color and entirely hide the polythalamous gall beneath. The gall interior contains small and extremely thin-walled larval cells. Between them there are a few thin fibrous plates or lamellae separating open spaces. An average size gall contains 14 larval cells (Bassett 1881).

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

Distribution. USA: Arizona, Mule Pass Mountains (Bassett 1881).

- 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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