Belonocnema fossoria, Weld, 1921

Zhang, Y. Miles, Egan, Scott P., Driscoe, Amanda L. & Ott, James R., 2021, One hundred and sixty years of taxonomic confusion resolved: Belonocnema (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) gall wasps associated with live oaks in the USA, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 (4), pp. 1234-1255 : 1244

BELONOCNEMA FOSSORIA , WELD, 1921, REV. STAT.

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Figures

Figure 1. Belonocnema fossoria (A–D), Belonocnema kinseyi (E, F). A, sexual-generation root gall. B, adult female sexual generation. C, fully lignified asexual-generation leaf gall on Q. geminata. D, adult asexual generation. E, fully lignified asexual-generation leaf gall on Q. fusiformis. (Leaf galls produced by B. kinseyi on Q. fusiformis and Q. virginiana are indistinguishable from leaf galls produced by B. treatae on Q. virginiana.) F, adult asexual generation (by Jena Johnson).

Figure 3. Belonocnema fossoria. A, lateral habitus of asexual-generation female syntype, arrow pointing to tibial spur. B, dorsal habitus of asexual-generation female syntype. C, frontal view of asexual-generation female syntype. D, label of syntype specimen. E, lateral habitus of sexual-generation female. (Photos A–D by Rachel Osborn, USNM: http://n2t.net/ ark:/65665/36d24dd5f-fe3b-4085-aecd-0568264b43a9, Accessed 28 September 2020)