Xanthoteras tuckeri (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Xanthoteras
Hosts: Quercus pungens
Detachable: detachable
Color:
Texture: hairy
Abundance:
Shape: globular
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Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, leaf edge
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.
New cynipid wasps from the southwestern United States (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)
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Holotype female; TEXAS. EL PASO CO.: Franklin Mountains, El Paso, 15 Feb 1969, R. J. Lyon, from galls on Quercus pungens...
Monothalamous, tiny (2.5 mm diameter), spherical, on upper leaf surface; larval cell occupying lower portion of gall; appears in late summer, maturing in late December through January and February.
”- RJ Lyon: (1996) New cynipid wasps from the southwestern United States (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)©
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