Antron magdalenae, new species

Host: Quercus subturbinella=Q. turbinella Greene.

Gall: Globular, 3 mm. in diameter, with a dull, uneven surface covered with stellate hairs, sessile by a broad base on under side of leaf in the fall. Wall thin.

Habitat: The types were cut out November 10 from galls collected Nov. 9, 1921, at Magdalena, N. Mex. Two paratypes are from Tijeras, N. Mex. Galls were seen also at Hillsboro, Kingston, and in the Burro Mountains, N. Mex.

Antron magdalenae

Quercus subturbinella [turbinella]
Leaf galls
Detachable
Globular, thin-shelled, surface wrinkled, solitary, on under side leaf.

Antron magdalenae
(Cynips magdalenae)*
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Hosts: Quercus turbinella

The surface is usually heavily wrinkled, with pronounced ridges as on a prune, and has a mealy-granular coating.

Range: Payson AZ