Amphibolips tarasco (sexgen)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Amphibolips
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, green
Texture: hairless, spotted
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Shape: globular, sphere
Season: Spring
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Alignment:
Walls: thin, spongy
Location: bud, stem
Form: oak apple
Cells: monothalamous
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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.
Revision of the Amphibolips species of Mexico excluding the “niger complex” Kinsey (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), with description of seven new species
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Amphibolips tarasco sp. nov.
[Photos of this gall appear on page 38 of the pdf]
Gall (Figs 20C, 20D). A large, regularly spherical, oak apple gall. The surface of gall is smooth, green with darker green spots when fresh. Monothalamic. Grows on twigs of Quercus castanea.
Distribution. A. tarasco was found at 2000 m a.s.l. at Santa María, Michoacán state, Mexico.
Biology. Includes a sexual generation. The galls were collected in March, and the adults emerged shortly after the galls were collected.
”- Jose Luis Nieves-Aldrey, E Pascual, Y Maldonado-Lopez, E Medianero, K Oyama: (2012) Revision of the Amphibolips species of Mexico excluding the “niger complex” Kinsey (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), with description of seven new species©
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