Feron pattersonae
| Feron pattersonae | |
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| Galls formed by the all-female generation of Feron pattersonae on oak leaves | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Cynipidae |
| Genus: | Feron |
| Species: | F. pattersonae |
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| Feron pattersonae Fullaway, 1911 | |
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Feron pattersonae, also known as the plate gall wasp, is a species of oak gall wasp in the genus Feron.[1][2] Their hosts are among the white oaks grouping of oaks, with blue oak being common.[3][4]
Like most oak gall wasps, the plate gall wasp has two alternating generations a year: a parthenogenic all-female generation, and a bisexual generation.[3] The all-female generation produces galls in summer that are flat and circular with scalloped edges. Attached to the underside of leaves, these galls are initially green, then yellow, and fade to brown.[4] They are 7–9 mm in diameter and have a single larval chamber.[3]
The bisexual generation's galls were thought by scientist Alfred Kinsey in 1922 to belong to a new species, Andricus pedicellatus. These galls consist of a pointed capsule at the end of a hair-like stem.[5][3]
References
- ^ "Species Andricus pattersonae - Plate Gall Wasp". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ^ Cuesta-Porta, Victor; Melika, George; Nicholls, James A.; Stone, Graham N.; Pujade-Villar, Juli (2023-11-07). "Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Feron Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), including the description of six new species". Zootaxa. 5366 (1): 1–174. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5366.1.1. hdl:20.500.11820/8d7cf66b-8011-4572-b520-b8f5d78deae2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 38220731. S2CID 265191343.
- ^ a b c d Russo, Ronald A. (2021). Plant galls of the Western United States. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 290–291. ISBN 978-0-691-21340-8. OCLC 1239984577.
- ^ a b McCracken, Mary Isabel; Egbert, Dorothy Barnes (1922). California Gall-making Cynipidae: With Descriptions of New Species. Stanford University Press. pp. 26–27.
- ^ Kinsey, Alfred C. (1922). "New Pacific Coast Cynipidae (Hymenoptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 46: 279–295. hdl:2246/1962.
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