Feron gigas (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Feron
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, pink, red, purple
Texture: hairy, hairless
Abundance: abundant
Shape: spangle/button
Season: Summer, Fall
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells:
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s): Saucer Gall Wasp (unisexual generation)
Synonymy:
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New American Cynipid Wasps From Galls

Andricus crenatus, n. sp.

Host. — Quercus dumosa and Q. douglasii.

Gall (pl, 17, fig, 18). — A spangle about 4 mm. in diameter, usually on the upper side of the leaf, saucer shaped, with a thin crenate margin when young in August and with a prominent hump in center, Wlien mature in fall there is a lens-shaped larval cavity inside, on the floor of which is a thin, white, circular disk from which prominent lines radiate. Galls on Quercus douglasii are less crenate.

Habitat. — The type is from a series of dead adults cut out of galls collected on Quercus dumosa at Los Gatos, Calif,, on December 13, 1935. Others, all from California, are from the San Bernardino Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, and Banning; other paratypes emerged November 19, 1935, from galls collected at Colfax, on Quercus douglasii a few days previously ; others are from Stanford University and Angels Camp. Similar galls have been seen on Quercvs engelmanni at Santa Anita, Calif. Adults not included in the type series have been reared from galls on Quercus garryana at Siskiyou summit north of Holbrook, Calif.

- LH Weld: (1952) New American Cynipid Wasps From Galls©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15672479#page/374/mode/1up


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