Melikaiella reticulata n. sp.
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Hosts: Quercus laurina

Gall. Adults were obtained from galls similar to those of M. bicolor [Also known from Quercus laurina. Description: Plurilocular. Distal part composed of strongly swollen young branches (20-30 x 30-40 mm). More or less circular or oval in cross-section; larval chambers (3x1.7 mm) are nested perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the branch, occupying radially the entire space of the gall in cross-section. Green, easily cuttable; brown after the adults emerged and hard interiorly; the external epidermis and the tissue between larval chambers are easy to cut. Surface smooth, verrucose where the leaf petioles are inserted.]

Range: Mexico (Hidalgo)

Biology: Galls develop in May and mature in June. Adults start to emerge in July. Several parasitoid specimens from Pteromalidae, Eulophidae and Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) emerged in August.

- J. Pujade-Villar, D. Cibrián-Tovar, V. D. Cibrián-Llanderal, A. Equihua-Martínez, E. G. Estrada-Venegas, M. Serrano-Muñoz, J. R. Lomeli-Flores: (2014) A new genus of oak gallwasp, Melikaiella Pujade-Villar Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), from the Nearctic region^©