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Species Feron sulfureum - Andricus sulfureus

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Cynipoidea
Family Cynipidae (Gall Wasps)
Tribe Cynipini (Oak Gall Wasps)
Genus Feron
Species sulfureum (Andricus sulfureus)
Explanation of Names
Author: Weld, 1926
Identification
Forms detachable leaf galls on Quercus arizonica and Q. oblongifolia (1).
Works Cited
1.Cynipid Galls of the Southwest
Lewis H. Weld. 1960. Privately printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan.