Dros viscidum (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Dros
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown
Texture: hairy
Abundance: occasional
Shape: spangle/button
Season:
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Alignment:
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
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Name
Notes
Andricus viscidus
Previous name
Dros viscidum
Liodora viscida
Weld's original combination

New American Cynipids from galls

Liodora viscida, new species

Host.--Quercus oblongifolia

Gall (pl. 1, fig. 3). — A spangle-gall sessile on veins on underside of leaf late in fall, 2-4 mm. in diameter, fleshy, pinkish, covered with stellate hairs on its sticky surface, the edge inrolled, the larval cell basal and eccentric. One to four on a leaf.

Habitat. — Mrs. N. W. Capron collected galls containing white pupae on January 21, 1935, at Nogales, Ariz. Adults emerged on February 21, 22, and 27.

- LH Weld: (1944) New American Cynipids from galls©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32802#page/17/mode/1up


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