Melikaiella papula (sexgen)

Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Melikaiella
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New Cynipidae (1881)

C. papula, n. sp.

Clusters of small papillose or cone-like galls on the upper side of the leaves of Q. rubra and Q tinctoria, projecting unequally and usually so crowded as to form a confluent mass of pustule-like elevations. They are very hard, though only transformed portions of the blade of the leaf. On the under side of the leaf they appear simply as a scar, projecting little if at all. They bear a slight resemblance to the galls of C futilis, but this species is rarely confluent and never beyond two or three galls, while C papula is quite often found in clusters of forty or fifty, or even a hundred. C papula is monothalamous, while C futilis has, usually, from three to five larvae in each gall.

- HF Bassett: (1881) New Cynipidae (1881)©

Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27873892#page/115/mode/1up


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