Belonocnema kinseyi (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Belonocnema
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, orange, pink, red
Texture: hairy
Abundance:
Shape: sphere
Season: Fall, Summer
Alignment: erect
Walls: thick
Location: lower leaf, on leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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Heterogony in Belonocnema treatae Mayr (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae).

Belonocnema treatae, new synonym [reversed by Zhang et al]

Hosts: Quercus fusiformis

Locality: TX

Leaf galls.--Leaf galls produced by the bisexual generation [they seem to be attributing the gall to the parent wasp, not the larvae within, unlike other sources] develop following oviposition on buds and on newly unfurled leaves. Galls develop exclusively on the undersurface of leaves and are unilocular, smooth, and pea shaped. At maturity galls are lignified and range from 3 to 7 mm in diameter. Unisexual females emerged from lignified galls from mid-October through early November in both 1996 and 1997. No males have been recorded from the 115 wasps that have emerged from leaf galls in the laboratory.

- JoAnne Lund, James Ott, Robert Lyon: (1998) Heterogony in Belonocnema treatae Mayr (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae).©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54709#page/775/mode/1up


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