Zapatella nievesaldreyi (agamic)

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Family: Cynipidae (Wasp) | Genus: Zapatella

Hosts: Quercus humboldtii

Detachable: Integral

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Alignment: integral

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Location: stem

Form: hidden cell

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A new genus of oak gallwasps, Zapatella Pujade-Villar & Melika, gen. n., with a description of two new species from the Neotropics (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini). - Juli Pujade-Villar, Paul Hanson, Claudia A. Medina, Miguel Torres, George Melika (2012)

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Zapatella nievesaldreyi (agamic) agamic: The agamic (AKA unisexual) generation of an oak gall wasp (cynipini) species consists of only female wasps, which do not mate before laying the eggs which become the male and females of the sexual generation (sexgen). View in glossary →