Andricus murtfeldtae (sexgen)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, white, green
Texture: bumpy, hairless
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Spring
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Alignment:
Walls: thick
Location: bud
Form:
Cells: polythalamous
Possible Range:i
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Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.
Descriptions of new Cynipidous Galls and Gall-Wasps in the United States National Museum
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ANDRICUS MURTFELDTAE, new species.
Gall. — An irregular, hard, pithy, brown, globular gall; externally finely granulated and with a few short blunt spines; interiorly of a hard, pithy, brown substance ; polythalamous. Diameter, 8 mm. ; length, 10 mm.
Described from 3 male specimens with the gall, labeled simply from Miss Murtfeldt, and probably taken at Kirkwood, Missouri.
”- 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/141/mode/1up
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