Druon serretae (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Druon
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, white, yellow, 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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Synonymy:
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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
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Druon serretae Pujade-Villar, Cuesta-Porta & Melika, sp. nov.

Gall (Fig. 233). Woolly leaf galls that cannot be distinguished from those of D. protagion, D. receptum or D. quercuslanigerum.

Biology. Only the asexual generation is known, which induces woolly leaf galls on Q. grisea (Section Quercus, Series Leucomexicanae). Galls mature in October–November; adults emerge from January of the following year, most emerging in March.

Distribution. Mexico: Aguascalientes.

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- 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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