Odontocynips championi (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Odontocynips
Hosts: Quercus bumelioides
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, gray, green
Texture: stiff
Abundance: common
Shape: cluster
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Alignment: integral
Walls: spongy
Location: stem
Form: abrupt swelling
Cells: polythalamous
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Andricus championi
Cynips ashmeadi
Cynips championi
Cynips championii
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Biologia Centrali-americana Insecta. Hymenoptera · Volume 33
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- Cynips championi
The gall is broader than long, having a breadth of about 2 1/2 inches and a length of 2 inches, the surface largely indented, of a leathery texture, and so hard that it can only be cut with difficulty; the inside is also hard and is of a close compact spongy nature. Its color closely resembles that of the twigs. Intersected through it at irregular intervals are oval cells about 1 1/2 millim. in length. The outer margin of the cells is hard, woody, and white. The gall is situated at the end of a twig.
”- Osbert Salvin, Frederick DuCane Godman: (1900) Biologia Centrali-americana Insecta. Hymenoptera · Volume 33©
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