Belonocnema treatae (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Belonocnema
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, red, purple
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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Cynipid galls of the eastern United States

Belonocnema fossoria [not a formal synonym per Zhang but Weld uses this name to cover leaf galls of this genus on both Quercus virginiana and geminata. The former is B treatae.]

Quercus virginiana, geminata
Leaf galls, detachable
Tan, smooth, globular galls on under side of leaf in numbers in the fall.

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Fig 230. On Q virginiana. Also on Q geminata. Adults emerged 8-13. In two cases where the galls were numerous on the leaves in the fall shriveled old galls of Belonocnema treatae Mayr were found on the roots.

- LH Weld: (1959) Cynipid galls of the eastern United States©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/273718#page/125/mode/1up


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