Trichoteras frondeum, new species

Host.--Quercus chrysolepis

Gall (pl. 1, fig. 6). — A transformed lateral bud, the outer brown bud scales surrounding a mass of thinner, narrower bracts. At the base in the center is a single, ovoid, thin-walled cell, 3.0 by 1.7 mm. at whose base and apex is a circle and tuft of straight, single-celled, slender white hairs 1.5 mm. long.

Habitat. — The types (dead) were cut out of galls collected at Idyllwild, Calif., on September 21, 1922. The characteristic galls have been seen on Mount Wilson, in the San Bernardino Mountains, in Sequoia National Park, at Kyburz, Los Gatos, and Shasta in California, and at Canyonville, Oreg. A similar gall on Quercus wilcoxii was noted in the Santa Catalina, Chiricahua, and Huachuca Mountains in Arizona.

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

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32802#page/16/mode/1up