Antron magdalenae (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Antron
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, gray
Texture: hairy, wrinkly
Abundance: rare
Shape: globular
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Walls: thin
Location: lower leaf, on leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
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Cynips magdalenae
missing image of Antron magdalenae (agamic)

New American Cynipid Wasps From Oak Galls

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.

- LH Weld: (1957) New American Cynipid Wasps From Oak Galls©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/114064#page/148/mode/1up


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