Loxaulus boharti (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Loxaulus
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, gray, yellow
Texture: stiff, hairless
Abundance: occasional
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling, hidden cell
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
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Gall-inducing cynipid wasps from Quercus dunnii Kellogg (Hymenoptera)

Loxaulus boharti Dailey and Sprenger, New Species

Host: Quercus dunnii [palmeri]

Integral stem gall, larval cells 2 mm in diameter, develop in wood under bark, stems slightly lumpy though lumps barely noticeable until insects emerge. Similar to gall of Loxaulus brunneus ... Insects emerge in late March and early April from 2-year-old twigs and only the basal half of prior year twigs.

Galls similar to the above were collected on . . . Quercus cedrosensis. No insects were reared.

Distribution: Baja California, CA

- D C Dailey, C M Sprenger: (1983) Gall-inducing cynipid wasps from Quercus dunnii Kellogg (Hymenoptera)©

Reference: https://archive.org/details/panpacificentom59vand/page/44/mode/2up


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