Callirhytis electrea, new species

Host.--Quercus montana

Gall. — A group of a few hard, stony, cells inside full-grown acorns in the fall, lying close to the wall in depressions in normal cotyledons, usually at or above the center of the acorn.

Habitat — The type is from a series bred from acorns collected in October 1934 on the Blue Ridge, 5 miles north of Bluemont, Va., adults emerging on May 8, 1937. Two paratypes are from galls collected on Marshall Peak near Washington, Va. Others are from galls collected at East Falls Church. Va., in October 1930, the adults emerging on April 20, 30, 1934. From two of these lots of collected acorns the emergence of an undescribed black species in small numbers suggests that there are two species infesting the acorns of this oak,

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

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32802#page/32/mode/1up