Kinsey: Gall Wasp Genus Cynips
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distal to areolet; galls short, with a short stalk; Q. dumosa, Q. durata; Lake Co. area of Calif.var. hildebrandae | ||
| Thorax reduced, abdomen enlarged, wings short; galls short, the stalk hardly as long as the swollen tip; Q. garryana; Sierras, no. Calif., and Ore.var. teres | ||
| Wings reduced to about 0.80 of body length; galls flattened discshaped, deep bowl-shaped, or pouch-shaped; Q. chrysolepis; Ore., Calif., So. Ariz.C. guadaloupensis, 8a | ||
| 8a. | Abdomen smooth and without aciculation; galls disc- or pouchshaped.8b | |
| Abdomen with scattered aciculation on segments three to six; mature galls deep bowl-shaped; so. Calif, mts.var. patelloides | ||
| 8b. | Mesopleuron with shining, naked spot dorsally; galls pouchshaped; San Jacinto Mts.var. insolens | |
| Mesopleuron entirely punctate and hairy; galls flattened discshaped.var. guadaloupensis | ||
SUBGENUS BESBICUS
| 9. | Dorsal projections of the hypopygial spine well developed (fig. 217-220), but not as long as in the next. Galls on the leaf vein, petiole, or stem; Q. lobata, Q. Douglasii.10 | |
| Dorsal projections of the spine unusually long (fig. 221-224); head rather distinctly narrower than the thorax; galls confined to the leaf veins; Q. garryana, Q. dumosa, Q. durata, and forms of these oaks.11 | ||
| 10. | Insect hardly distinguishable from the next (multipunctata), with never more than a very few spots in the discoidal cell; the surface of the gall very irregular with distorted ridges and blunt spines, the gall internally solid; Q. lobata; Mendocino-Lake County area of Calif.C. heldae | |
| Insect hardly distinguishable from the above (heldae), sometimes with numerous spots in the discoidal cell; the gall spherical, all but microscopically smooth, internally with compacted, sometimes solid masses of fibers; Q. lobata, Q. Douglasii; Great Valley of California.
C. multipunctata, 10a | ||
| 10a. | Scutellum anteriorly finely rugose, wing veins not heavy, tip of radius of moderate size, cubital cell not heavily spotted, the spots not fusing, radial cell nearly unspotted; mature galls brown, nearly smooth and naked; Central Calif.; on the leaves, petioles, and young twigs; Q. lobata.
var. conspicua | |
