Antron madera (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Hosts: Quercus arizonica / Quercus turbinella
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, red, white, yellow
Texture: bumpy, hairy
Abundance: occasional
Shape: globular, sphere
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Alignment: erect
Walls: thick
Location: lower leaf, leaf midrib
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
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Cynips madera
Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.
New cynipid wasps from the southwestern United States (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)
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Antron madera Lyon, NEW SPECIES
Gall. —Monothalamous, spherical (Figs. 13, 14), small (3 mm diameter); attached to midrib on undersurface of leaf, flattened at point of attachment. Mature galls are slightly wrinkled and have scattered red and white microstellate hairs. The larval cell is centrally located and surrounded by thick nutritive layer that becomes spongy in older galls.
Hosts.—Quercus arizonica and Q. toumeyi.
”- RJ Lyon: (1996) New cynipid wasps from the southwestern United States (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)©
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