Feron serranoae (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Hosts: Quercus rugosa
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown
Texture:
Abundance:
Shape: globular, numerous
Season: Fall, Winter
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy: Pending...
Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.
Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Feron Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), including the description of six new species
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Feron serranoae Pujade-Villar & Cuesta-Porta, sp. nov.
Gall (Fig. 341). Brownish rounded unilocular galls on the underside of leaves, with an apical hole. Up to 6-8 mm in diameter.
Biology. Only the asexual generation is known, which induces galls on an unidentified white oak Quercus sp. (section Quercus, subsection Leucomexicana). The gall was found mature in January and the adults emerged soon after.
Distribution. Only known from Sierra de Guadalupe, Mexico State (Mexico).
”- Victor Cuesta-Porta, George Melika, James, A. Nicholls, Graham N. Stone, Juli Pujade-Villar: (2023) Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Feron Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), including the description of six new species©
Further Information:
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