Druon garciamartinonae (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Druon
Detachable: detachable
Color: white, purple, tan
Texture: woolly
Abundance:
Shape: tuft, cluster
Season: Fall
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, leaf midrib
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Druon Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with description of five new species

Druon garciamartinonae, Cuesta-Porta, Melika & Pujade-Villar sp. nov.

Gall (Fig. 45). Creamy fluffy gall on the midrib on the underside of leaves, pubescence sometimes with purple areas. Cluster of a few cells.

Biology. Only the asexual generation is known, which induces woolly leaf galls on Q. glabrescens (Section
Quercus, Series Leucomexicanae). Galls mature in October; adults emerged in April under laboratory conditions.

Distribution. Mexico: State of Mexico, San Felipe del Progreso, Plateros-Arenales.

- Victor Cuesta-Porta, George Melika, James Nicholls, Graham Stone, Juli Pujade-Villar: (2022) Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Druon Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with description of five new species©


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