Striatoandricus furnessae (agamic)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Striatoandricus
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, red, white
Texture: woolly
Abundance:
Shape: cluster
Season: Summer, Fall
Related:
Alignment:
Walls:
Location: stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:
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Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Druon Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with description of five new species

Striatoandricus furnessae (Weld, 1913), comb. nov.

Callirhytis furnessae Weld, 1913: 133, gall, female.
Andricus furnessae (Weld): Weld 1922: 16.

Gall. Large woolly mass nearly or completely encircling twigs, 85 mm long by 60 mm in diameter. Each mass is made up of separate larval cells, from a few to over 150. Each cell contains a single larval chamber, and is covered with dense long white wool. Cells are rhomboid, hairy to the base, with thick and woody walls.

Biology. Only an asexual generation is known, inducing galls on Quercus sp.

Distribution. Mexico: Michoacan.

- Victor Cuesta-Porta, George Melika, James Nicholls, Graham Stone, Juli Pujade-Villar: (2022) Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Druon Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with description of five new species©


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