Liodora apiarium, new species

Host: Quercus alba

Gall. Solitary, sessile, on underside of leaf close to edge in October, shaped like an old-fashioned straw beehive, white or pinkish, measuring up to 4.6 mm broad by 4.0 mm high. Inside is a large cavity with a transverse larval cell at very base. During the winter on the ground the outer fleshy layer shrivels and the gall becomes more cylindrical. Not common.

Habitat. — The type is from a series of 16 that were found alive in out-of-door breeding cage on March 7, 1942, from galls collected at East Falls Church, Va., in October 1940. In galls collected at Vienna, Va., in October 1938 living adults were found the next October and one emerged on February 12, 1940, and others had emerged and died in the cage by April 15. Galls have been seen at Bluemont and Rosslyn, Va., Cabin John, Md., and Washington, D. C.

- LH Weld: (1944) New American Cynipids from galls^©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32802#page/18/mode/1up