Druon gregori Melika, Nicholls & Stone 2022

Zhang, Y. Miles, Sasan, Kimberlie, O’Kennon, Robert J. & Kranz, Adam J., 2022, Discovery through iNaturalist: new species and new records of oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from Texas, USA, Zootaxa 5168 (1), pp. 63-74 : 71

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5168.1.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0BCC83AF-A901-43E1-9E8E-52E0D00DEA5B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6876437
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9642F329-FFFF-FFF9-31B3-F97D7F0C16DA
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scientific name	Druon gregori Melika, Nicholls & Stone 2022
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Figs. 27–30 View FIGURES 27–30

Materials examined: Other material: 2♀, TX, Big Spring, Comanche Trail Park, 32.2134, -101.4757, 17.XII.2021, ex. 25.III.2022, K. Sasan Leg., Quercus mohriana × Quercus havardii, USNM. 2♀, same information as before, UB.

Druon gregori is a new species described earlier this year in Cuesta-Porta et al. (2022), known only from the Santa Catalina and Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona on oaks in the Series Leucomexicanae. Our record ( Figs. 27– 30 View FIGURES 27–30 ) represents both a new state record ( TX), and new plant record ( Quercus mohriana Buckley × Quercus havardii Rydberg hybrid, iNaturalist observation 109484892, 103440540, 103440538) for the species. Additionally, a similar gall has been observed in New Mexico on Quercus turbinella Greene (iNaturalist observation 107224635), which would suggest that D. gregori can be found across these southwestern US states on Leucomexicanae oaks.