Sphaeroteras pulchripennis (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Sphaeroteras
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, orange, tan
Texture: hairy, hairless
Abundance: common
Shape: globular, sphere, numerous
Season: Summer, Fall
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, on leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
Name
Notes
Atrusca pulchripenne
Diplolepis porterae
Diplolepis pulchripennis
Dryophanta porterae
Dryophanta pulchripennis
Sphaeroteras pulchripennis
Sphaerotheras pulchripennis (agamic)
Alternate spelling in Pujade-Villar et al
Trigonaspis pulchripennis (agamic)
Previous name
Xanthoteras pulchripenne
Previous name

Descriptions of new Cynipidous Galls and Gall-Wasps in the United States National Museum

Dryophanta pulchripennis, new species

Gall.--The specimens of the gall from which this species was reared can not now be found in the collection, but the following description of it may assist in its identification:

from Arizona, a leaf of an undetermined oak with six galls on its under surface; four of these are in a row in the middle between the midrib and the margin; they are light brown, almost hemispherical, subopaque, reticulate, and with scattered, very minute, reddish tubercles, which have some short white hairs basally.

Reared during April, 1881

- William Ashmead: (1896) Descriptions of new Cynipidous Galls and Gall-Wasps in the United States National Museum©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31780#page/139/mode/1up


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