Amphibolips michoacaensis (sexgen)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Amphibolips
Hosts: Quercus castanea / Quercus emoryi
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, green
Texture:
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment:
Walls: thin, spongy
Location: bud, stem
Form: oak apple
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
missing image of Amphibolips michoacaensis (sexgen)
Revision of the Amphibolips species of Mexico excluding the “niger complex” Kinsey (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), with description of seven new species
“

Amphibolips michoacaensis sp. nov.

[Photos of this gall appear on page 38 of the pdf]

Gall (Figs 20A, 20B). A globular more or less regular gall with spongy interior Monothalamic. Grows on twigs of Quercus castanea or nearer the base of the gall, galls up to 48 mm in diameter, detachable, on twigs.

Distribution. A. michoacaensis was found at Umécuaro and other sites of Cuenca of Cuitzeo at 2100 m at Michoacán state, Mexico.

Biology. Exhibits a sexual generation. The galls were collected in April, and the adults emerged in May.

”

- 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©

Further Information:
Author(s)
▲
Year
▲
Title
▲
License
▲
Paulina Hernández-Soto, Miguel Lara-Flores, Lourdes Agredano-Moreno, Luis Felipe Jiménez-García, Pablo Cuevas-Reyes, Ken Oyama
2015
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Victor Cuesta-Porta, Armando Equihua-Martinez, Edith Estrada-Venegas, David Cibrian-Tovar, Uriel Barrera-Ruiz, Salvador Ordaz-Silva, Imelda Virginia Lopez Sanchez, George Melika, Juli Pujade-Villar
2020
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
See Also:
iNaturalist logo
BugGuide logo
Google Scholar logo
Biodiversity Heritage Library logo