Melikaiella papula. comb. n.
sexgen

Cynips papula
[Weld's synonymy of Cynips papula and Callirhytis quercusmodesta is reversed and quercusmodesta is considered nomen dubius.]

Hosts: Quercus velutina, rubra

Gall. The galls are hard small papillose clusters or cone-like on the upper side of the oak leaves, projecting unequally and usually so crowded as to form a confluent mass of pustule-like elevations. On the under side of the leaf they appear simply as a scar, projecting a little if at all. Galls were collected on June and adults emerged in the same month or July (Weld, 1922).

Range: CT, MA

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.