Andricus, Hartig, 1840

Shachar, Einat, Melika, George, Inbar, Moshe & Dorchin, Netta, 2018, The oak gall wasps of Israel (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini) - diversity, distribution and life history, Zootaxa 4521 (4), pp. 451-498 : 470

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A4FD6137-25B0-43D5-845B-B4FDF4E9F5D7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5949916

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC1F87FE-FFF7-FF95-FF61-FE16FB01B406

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scientific name

Andricus
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Andricus View in CoL View at ENA sp. 3

Host plant in Israel. Q. boissieri .

Life history. Known only from the bud galls of the sexual generation, which resemble a small carambola fruit, with 3–4 distinct longitudinal ridges, 5–7 mm long and 3–5 mm wide and single-chambered ( Fig. 26 View FIGURES 23–28 ). Young galls are green and fleshy, turnning pale brown when mature.

Phenology. Young galls were found in April and matured in June but no adults were reared from them. They were found only on low branches of young trees, close to the ground.

Distribution. Israel: rare species, found only on a few trees on Mt. Meron and Pa’ar cave.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Cynipidae

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