Andricus furnaceus (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Andricus
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, gray
Texture: bumpy
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Walls: thick
Location: stem
Form: abrupt swelling
Cells: polythalamous
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New species and synonymy of American Cynipidae

Andricus furnaceus, new species

Gall. —A light grayish brown, rather regular swelling around small twigs, resembling a baked potato. Polythalamous, a single gall containing fifty or more larval cells. Matted, light brownish gray in color, resembling the skin of a baked potato, with scattered flakes or patches of loosened, dark brown, "burnt" skin. The whole interior is hard, compact-granular with very little solid woody fibre; the larval cells average 2.5 X 4.0 mm., formed of a layer distinct from but closely embedded in the surrounding tissue, the cells scattered irregularly throughout the gall, but more abundantly near the center. Surrounding and surmounting the young twigs (preventing their further growth) of Quercus sp.

Range: San Luis, Potosi

- Alfred Kinsey: (1920) New species and synonymy of American Cynipidae©


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