Druon hansoni (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Druon
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, tan
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Shape: tuft, cluster
Season: Spring
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Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, leaf midrib
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
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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 hansoni Pujade-Villar, sp. nov.

Gall (Fig. 68). Brown fluffy gall on the midrib on the underside of leaves, cluster of a few cells.

Biology. Only the asexual generation is known, which induces woolly leaf galls on Q. oleoides (Section Virentes). Galls mature in April; adults emerged shortly afterwards under laboratory conditions.

Distribution. Costa Rica: Guanacas, Parque Nacional Santa Rosa.

- 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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