Zapatella brooksvillei (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Zapatella
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, gray
Texture: stiff, hairless
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Season: Winter, Spring
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling, hidden cell
Cells: polythalamous
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New species of Nearctic oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)

Zapatella brooksvillei Melika & Abrahamson, sp. nov.

Gall. Tiny enlargements at the base of young twigs and branches, multilocular with up to 7–8 cells in one gall; sometimes only a barely visible swelling indicates the presence of the gall.

Biology. Only an asexual generation is known, which induces twig galls on Q. laevis. Mature galls, containing adult wasps, were collected in January-February; adults emerge in March.

Distribution. USA, Florida, Hernando Co. (Brooksville Ridge) and Highlands Co., Lake Placid (Archbold Biological Station).

- George Melika, James Nicholls, Warren Abrahamson, Eileen Buss, Graham Stone: (2021) New species of Nearctic oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)©


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George Melika, James Nicholls, Warren Abrahamson, Eileen Buss, Graham Stone
2021
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