Atrusca deceptrix (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Atrusca
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, pink, red, tan
Texture:
Abundance:
Shape: globular, sphere
Season: Fall, Winter
Related:
Alignment:
Walls: thin, radiating-fibers
Location: lower leaf, leaf midrib, on leaf veins
Form: oak apple
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
Name
Notes
Cynips deceptrix

Review of the Nearctic and Neotropical genus Atrusca Kinsey, 1930 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)

Atrusca deceptrix (Kinsey, 1936)

Figs 235–248

Synonymy
Cynips (dugesi) deceptrix Kinsey, 1936: 108, female, gall.
Atrusca deceptrix (Kinsey): Weld, 1952: 314.

Types examined

HOLOTYPE female Cynips (dugesi) deceptrix “Canatlan 7N Dgo 7400’, Mex. Gall 11.9.31, 117 fms. 2.5.32”, “Q. undata, Kinsey coll.”, red “Cynips deceptrix, Holo- Paratype”, deposited in AMNH, NYC, examined by GM. Eight PARATYPE females “Canatlan 7N, Dgo 7400’ Mex., galls 11.09.31, 117 females to 2.5.32”, “Q. undata Kinsey coll.”, red label “Cynips deceptrix. Paratype”, deposited in the general collection in AMNH, NYC, examined by GM.

Gall (Fig. 248)

Similar to all galls of Kinsey’s bella and dugesi complexes. Mature galls rosy or brownish tan, unspotted; dull, minutely roughened, up to 22 mm, with average 17 mm in diameter.

Biology

The asexual generation is only known to induce leaf galls on Q. chihuahuensis, Q. undata. Galls mature in late autumn; adults emerge from February next year.

Distribution

Mexico: Chihuahua, Durango.

- VICTOR CUESTA-PORTA, GEORGE MELIKA, MAR FERRER-SUAY, ALEXIS VERA-ORTIZ, JULI PUJADE-VILLAR: (2025) Review of the Nearctic and Neotropical genus Atrusca Kinsey, 1930 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)©


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VICTOR CUESTA-PORTA, GEORGE MELIKA, MAR FERRER-SUAY, ALEXIS VERA-ORTIZ, JULI PUJADE-VILLAR
2025
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