Striatoandricus nievesaldreyi (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Striatoandricus
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, orange, yellow
Texture: woolly, hairy
Abundance:
Shape: globular, hemispherical
Season: Summer, Fall
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls: thick
Location: upper leaf, leaf midrib
Form:
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
Name
Notes
Andricus mexicanus
Kinsey 1920
Andricus nievesaldreyi

Avispas agalladoras de los encinos de Santa Fe (Ciudad de México, México) (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae: Cynipini; Fagaceae)

Striatoandricus nievesaldreyi Pujade-Villar, In Pujade-Villar et al. (2011: 32), In Cuesta-Porta et al. (2020a: 13)

Gall (Figs. 7c-d): Found adhered to the central vein on the upper side of the leaves (rarely on the underside). Very similar to the previous one but larger in size, generally oval in outline, with a reddish-brown pubescence, longer and denser.

Hosts: Quercus laeta, Q. magnoliifolia, and Q. rugosa (section Quercus).

Biology: The whitish galls form from September and mature in December. Adults emerge from December to April.

Distribution: Mexico (Mexico City, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, and Tlaxcala); cited from Santa Fe in Cuesta-Porta et al. (2020) on Q. laeta.

- Uriel Barrera-Ruiz, Victor Cuesta-Porta, David Cibrian-Tovar, Aitor Martinez-Romero, Juli Pujade-Villar: (2021) Avispas agalladoras de los encinos de Santa Fe (Ciudad de México, México) (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae: Cynipini; Fagaceae)©


Further Information:
Author(s)
Year
Title
License
Juli Pujade-Villar, Armando Equihua Martinez, Edith Estrada Venegas, Miriam Serrano Munoz, J Refugio Lomeli Flores
2011
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Víctor Cuesta-Porta, Miquel A. Arnedo, David Cibrián-Tovar, Uriel M. Barrera-Ruiz, Rosa D. García-Martiñón, Armando Equihua-Martínez, Edith G. Estrada-Venegas, Ricardo Clark-Tapia, Silvia Romero-Rangel, and Juli Pujade-Villar
2020
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Uriel Barrera-Ruiz, Victor Cuesta-Porta, David Cibrian-Tovar, Aitor Martinez-Romero, Juli Pujade-Villar
2021
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Gallformers Contributors
2024
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